God does not play dice, and neither does CRISPR/Cas9.
God does not play dice, and neither does CRISPR/Cas9.
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DOI:
10.1093/nsr/nwy156
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发表时间:
2019-05
影响因子:
20.6
通讯作者:
Long C
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Long C
The current dogma is that Cas9-generated double-strand breaks repaired in a template-free manner lead to imprecise insertion/deletion (indel) mutations, and that only template-mediated homology-directed repair (HDR) can facilitate precise modification. Hence, the repair products of non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) are considered heterogeneous in their outcome, and generally dismissed as random by nature. With this understanding of NHEJ, it has long been used only for imprecise gene disruption, rather than deployed as a precise and predictable means for genome editing. It is also conventionally accepted that SpCas9—a variant that has been studied in extensive detail—cleaves the genomic target strand and generates blunted ends. Wu and his team [1] break with these two previously accepted dogmas, first by demonstrating that SpCas9-mediated template-free nucleotide insertions are precise and predictable, and second by convincingly proving that SpCas9 can also generate staggered ends with 1-to 3-nt overhangs at the 5’end using a paired guide ribonucleic acid (RNAs) approach. These findings were independently confirmed by other groups using high-throughput machine learning models [2, 3] and establish a novel perspective that informs the design of a wider breadth of genome-editing strategies predicated on a predictable and template-free correction of pathogenic mutations.Since the activities and outcomes of Cas9-mediated editing were previously thought to be unpredictable, most researchers would typically design and test multiple guide RNAs targeting the same locus. Only if they got ‘lucky’would this approach yield a desirable editing outcome. Much like rolling a dice, you will most certainly end up with a ‘number’, though not necessarily the one that wins the game. To en-
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