Engineering of CRISPR-Cas12b for human genome editing

The Cas12b family of CRISPR nucleases has been underutilized in mammalian cells due to the high temperature requirement of known members. Here the authors engineer BhCas12b to overcome this limitation for robust and specific genome editing applications in human cells.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jonathan Strecker, Sara Jones, Balwina Koopal, Jonathan Schmid-Burgk, Bernd Zetsche, Linyi Gao, Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin, Feng Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08224-4