Targeted DNA integration in human cells without double-strand breaks using CRISPR-associated transposases

GD Lampe, RT King, TS Halpin-Healy… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Conventional genome engineering with CRISPR–Cas9 creates double-strand breaks
(DSBs) that lead to undesirable byproducts and reduce product purity. Here we report an …

An engineered Cas-transposon system for programmable and site-directed DNA transpositions

SP Chen, HH Wang - The CRISPR journal, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Efficient site-directed insertion of heterologous DNA into a genome remains an outstanding
challenge. Recombinases that can integrate kilobase-sized DNA constructs are difficult to …

Precise cut-and-paste DNA insertion using engineered type VK CRISPR-associated transposases

CJ Tou, B Orr, BP Kleinstiver - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-associated transposases (CASTs) enable recombination-independent, multi-
kilobase DNA insertions at RNA-programmed genomic locations. However, the utility of type …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary and mechanistic diversity of Type IF CRISPR-associated transposons

SE Klompe, N Jaber, LY Beh, JT Mohabir, A Bernheim… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Canonical CRISPR-Cas systems utilize RNA-guided nucleases for targeted cleavage of
foreign nucleic acids, whereas some nuclease-deficient CRISPR-Cas complexes have been …

Orthogonal CRISPR-associated transposases for parallel and multiplexed chromosomal integration

S Yang, Y Zhang, J Xu, J Zhang, J Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cell engineering is commonly limited to the serial manipulation of a single gene or locus.
The recently discovered CRISPR-associated transposases (CASTs) could manipulate …

RNA-guided DNA insertion with CRISPR-associated transposases

J Strecker, A Ladha, Z Gardner, JL Schmid-Burgk… - Science, 2019 - science.org
CRISPR-Cas nucleases are powerful tools for manipulating nucleic acids; however, targeted
insertion of DNA remains a challenge, as it requires host cell repair machinery. Here we …

Transposon-encoded CRISPR–Cas systems direct RNA-guided DNA integration

SE Klompe, PLH Vo, TS Halpin-Healy, SH Sternberg - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Conventional CRISPR–Cas systems maintain genomic integrity by leveraging guide RNAs
for the nuclease-dependent degradation of mobile genetic elements, including plasmids and …

Novel molecular requirements for CRISPR RNA-guided transposition

MWG Walker, SE Klompe, DJ Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR-associated transposases (CASTs) direct DNA integration downstream of target
sites using the RNA-guided DNA binding activity of nuclease-deficient CRISPR-Cas …

Efficient chromosomal gene modification with CRISPR/cas9 and PCR-based homologous recombination donors in cultured Drosophila cells

R Böttcher, M Hollmann, K Merk, V Nitschko… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The ability to edit the genome is essential for many state-of-the-art experimental paradigms.
Since DNA breaks stimulate repair, they can be exploited to target site-specific integration …

Crispr–cas9 genome engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells

OW Ryan, S Poddar, JHD Cate - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshprotocols.cshlp.org
This protocol describes a method for CRISPR–Cas9-mediated genome editing that results in
scarless and marker-free integrations of DNA into Saccharomyces cerevisiae genomes …