Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 24, 2019, 1:26 p.m.
... edit(s) engages the prime editor protein. This primer editor protein consists of a Cas9 nickase fused...activity, enhance binding between the template and primer binding site, increase processivity, or improve...complementary to the nicked genomic DNA strand serves as a primer binding site (PBS). This PBS sequence hybridizes...pegRNAs, the team found that extending the pegRNA primer binding site to at least eight nucleotides enabled...thermostability through tighter binding to template-primer." Nucleic acids research 37.2 (2008): 473-481. ...
For designing pegRNAs, the Liu lab created PrimerDesign, a prime editing design tool, with the Pinello...