Guide RNA engineering for versatile Cas9 functionality

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 9555-9564

  Nowak, Chance M ^a   Lawson, Seth ^a   Zerez, Megan ^a   Bleris, Leonidas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAS9 ENDONUCLEASE STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ENDONUCLEASE; GUIDE RNA; PROTEIN BINDING;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ENDONUCLEASES; GENE EDITING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, GUIDE;

EID: 85016109938     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw908     Document Type: Review

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