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- Title
An improved zinc-finger nuclease architecture for highly specific genome editing.
- Authors
Miller, Jeffrey C.; Holmes, Michael C.; Jianbin Wang; Guschin, Dmitry Y.; Ya-Li Lee; Rupniewski, Igor; Beausejour, Christian M.; Waite, Adam J.; Wang, Nathaniel S.; Kim, Kenneth A.; Gregory, Philip D.; Pabo, Carl O.; Rebar, Edward J.
- Abstract
Genome editing driven by zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) yields high gene-modification efficiencies (>10%) by introducing a recombinogenic double-strand break into the targeted gene. The cleavage event is induced using two custom-designed ZFNs that heterodimerize upon binding DNA to form a catalytically active nuclease complex. Using the current ZFN architecture, however, cleavage-competent homodimers may also form that can limit safety or efficacy via off-target cleavage. Here we develop an improved ZFN architecture that eliminates this problem. Using structure-based design, we engineer two variant ZFNs that efficiently cleave DNA only when paired as a heterodimer. These ZFNs modify a native endogenous locus as efficiently as the parental architecture, but with a >40-fold reduction in homodimer function and much lower levels of genome-wide cleavage. This architecture provides a general means for improving the specificity of ZFNs as gene modification reagents.
- Subjects
NUCLEASES; GENES; DNA; DIMERS; NUCLEIC acids
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2007, Vol 25, Issue 7, p778
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt1319