CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects
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...cutting at mismatched guide sites, but not necessarily binding to these sites. Thus, these enzyme swaps ... ChIP-Seq, where only DNA sites bound by Cas are sequenced, has been tested with some success. The major... sequencing
Sites with high sequence similarity to the gRNA can be sequenced. These sites can be selectively... this often means DNA cleavage at unanticipated sites. While off-target effects are nearly impossible ...or is engineered not to cleave DNA and instead activates/represses gene expression by various mechanisms...words, they can sometimes localize to unintended sites with sequence similarity to the on-target site. ...When a CRISPR-Cas system localizes to unintended sites and performs its programmed function there, this...