Applications of genome editing technology in the targeted therapy of human diseases: mechanisms, advances and prospects

H Li, Y Yang, W Hong, M Huang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Based on engineered or bacterial nucleases, the development of genome editing
technologies has opened up the possibility of directly targeting and modifying genomic …

Advances in genome editing through control of DNA repair pathways

CD Yeh, CD Richardson, JE Corn - Nature cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Eukaryotic cells deploy overlapping repair pathways to resolve DNA damage.
Advancements in genome editing take advantage of these pathways to produce permanent …

Accurate classification of BRCA1 variants with saturation genome editing

GM Findlay, RM Daza, B Martin, MD Zhang, AP Leith… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Variants of uncertain significance fundamentally limit the clinical utility of genetic information.
The challenge they pose is epitomized by BRCA1, a tumour suppressor gene in which …

Therapeutic genome editing: prospects and challenges

DBT Cox, RJ Platt, F Zhang - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in the development of genome editing technologies based on
programmable nucleases have substantially improved our ability to make precise changes …

Induced pluripotent stem cells meet genome editing

D Hockemeyer, R Jaenisch - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
It is extremely rare for a single experiment to be so impactful and timely that it shapes and
forecasts the experiments of the next decade. Here, we review how two such experiments …

Optimized CRISPR/Cas tools for efficient germline and somatic genome engineering in Drosophila

F Port, HM Chen, T Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The type II clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-
associated (Cas) system has emerged recently as a powerful method to manipulate the …

Highly Specific and Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-Catalyzed Homology-Directed Repair in Drosophila

SJ Gratz, FP Ukken, CD Rubinstein, G Thiede… - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We and others recently demonstrated that the readily programmable CRISPR/Cas9 system
can be used to edit the Drosophila genome. However, most applications to date have relied …

Genome Engineering of Drosophila with the CRISPR RNA-Guided Cas9 Nuclease

SJ Gratz, AM Cummings, JN Nguyen, DC Hamm… - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We have adapted a bacterial CRISPR RNA/Cas9 system to precisely engineer the
Drosophila genome and report that Cas9-mediated genomic modifications are efficiently …

Highly efficient targeted mutagenesis of Drosophila with the CRISPR/Cas9 system

AR Bassett, C Tibbit, CP Ponting, JL Liu - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
Here, we present a simple and highly efficient method for generating and detecting
mutations of any gene in Drosophila melanogaster through the use of the CRISPR/Cas9 …

[HTML][HTML] Origins of programmable nucleases for genome engineering

S Chandrasegaran, D Carroll - Journal of molecular biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Genome engineering with programmable nucleases depends on cellular responses to a
targeted double-strand break (DSB). The first truly targetable reagents were the zinc finger …