Chemical Biology Approaches to Genome Editing: Understanding, Controlling, and Delivering Programmable Nucleases

Cell Chemical Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 57-73

  Hu, Johnny H ^a,b   Davis, Kevin M ^a,b   Liu, David R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUIDE RNA; PROTEIN VARIANT; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE; DNA;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA MODIFICATION; GENOME EDITING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; HUMANS;

EID: 84965050728     PISSN: 24519456     EISSN: 24519448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2015.12.009     Document Type: Review

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