Patterns of CRISPR/Cas9 activity in plants, animals and microbes

Plant Biotechnology Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2203-2216

  Bortesi, Luisa ^a   Zhu, Changfu ^b   Zischewski, Julia ^a   Perez, Lucia ^b   Bassié, Ludovic ^b   Nadi, Riad ^b   Forni, Giobbe ^b   Lade, Sarah Boyd ^b   Soto, Erika ^b   Jin, Xin ^b   Medina, Vicente ^b   Villorbina, Gemma ^b   Muñoz, Pilar ^b   Farré, Gemma ^b   Fischer, Rainer ^a,c   Twyman, Richard M ^d   Capell, Teresa ^b   Christou, Paul ^b,e   Schillberg, Stefan ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^d TRM Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

genome editing; mutational signature; off target mutations; on target mutations; sgRNA design; site directed mutagenesis; species dependent effects

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; RNA EDITING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EDITING; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; RNA EDITING;

EID: 84991102842     PISSN: 14677644     EISSN: 14677652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12634     Document Type: Review

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