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Orthogonal Cas9-Cas9 chimeras provide a versatile platform for genome editing

Bolukbasi, Mehmet F.
Luk, Kevin
Kwok, Samantha F.
Gupta, Ankit
Amrani, Nadia
Sontheimer, Erik J.
Zhu, Lihua Julie
Wolfe, Scot A.
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The development of robust, versatile and accurate toolsets is critical to facilitate therapeutic genome editing applications. Here we establish RNA-programmable Cas9-Cas9 chimeras, in single- and dual-nuclease formats, as versatile genome engineering systems. In both of these formats, Cas9-Cas9 fusions display an expanded targeting repertoire and achieve highly specific genome editing. Dual-nuclease Cas9-Cas9 chimeras have distinct advantages over monomeric Cas9s including higher target site activity and the generation of predictable precise deletion products between their target sites. At a therapeutically relevant site within the BCL11A erythroid enhancer, Cas9-Cas9 nucleases produced precise deletions that comprised up to 97% of all sequence alterations. Thus Cas9-Cas9 chimeras represent an important tool that could be particularly valuable for therapeutic genome editing applications where a precise cleavage position and defined sequence end products are desirable.

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Nat Commun. 2018 Nov 19;9(1):4856. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07310-x. Link to article on publisher's site

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10.1038/s41467-018-07310-x
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