BE-PLUS: A new base editing tool with broadened editing window and enhanced fidelity

Cell Research

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 855-861

  Jiang, Wen ^a   Feng, Songjie ^b,c,d   Huang, Shisheng ^b   Yu, Wenxia ^b   Li, Guanglei ^b   Yang, Guang ^b   Liu, Yajing ^b,c,d   Zhang, Yu ^b   Zhang, Lei ^c,d   Hou, Yu ^a   Chen, Jia ^b   Chen, Jieping ^a   Huang, Xingxu ^b  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSION PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

CHEMISTRY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EDITING; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; STOP CODON;

CODON, TERMINATOR; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 9; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EDITING; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

EID: 85048098789     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41422-018-0052-4     Document Type: Article

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