Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
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...Cell Stem Cell, Musunuru, Chad Cowan and their colleagues describe a much more efficient tool for doing...cells: a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) kit consisting of 834 plasmids. The researchers...proteins that comprise a DNA binding domain and an endonuclease domain. What’s distinctive is that the DNA-binding... rest of the protein in place including FokI endonuclease domain as well as fluorescent proteins used ...first really popular tool was the zinc finger nucleases. Unfortunately, it is time consuming and difficult...without a lot of expertise to create zinc finger nucleases that will bind desired sequences. TALENs are much... genome. It remains to be seen which system is cleaner in terms of minimizing off-target effects, but ...