Sentences with phrase «programmable nuclease»

Furthermore, by adding guanine nucleotides at the end of sgRNA (single guided RNA) that composes CRISPR - Cas9, they have successfully created this highly - developed programmable nuclease, which has no measurable off - target effects in the human genome.

Programmable nucleases, ZFN, TALEN and RGENs enable gene knockout in cultured cells and organisms by producing site - specific DNA double - strand breaks, whose repair via error - prone non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or microhomology - mediated end joining (MMEJ) gives rise to frameshift mutations.