Cas9 variants expand the target repertoire in Caenorhabditis elegans

Genetics

Volumn 202, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 381-388

  Bell, Ryan T ^a   Fu, Becky X H ^a   Fire, Andrew Z ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate PAMs; C. elegans; CRISPR Cas9; Genome editing; VQR Cas9

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; GUIDE RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PHENOTYPE; RNA EDITING; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PHENOTYPE; RNA EDITING; RNA, GUIDE; TRANSGENES;

EID: 84979934593     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.185041     Document Type: Article

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