CRISPR base editors: Genome editing without double-stranded breaks

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 475, Issue 11, 2018, Pages 1955-1964

  Eid, Ayman ^a   Alshareef, Sahar ^a   Mahfouz, Magdy M ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ADENINE DEAMINASE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DNA BASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL REGENERATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EDITING; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETICS; GENOME; PLANT;

ANIMALS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; GENE EDITING; GENOME; HUMANS; PLANTS;

EID: 85048696660     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BCJ20170793     Document Type: Review

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