Templated insertions—DNA repair gets acrobatic

S Stroik, AJ Luthman… - Environmental and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Deletions associated with the repair of DNA double‐strand breaks is a source of genetic
alternation and a recognized source of disease‐causing mutagenesis. Theta‐mediated end …

Double-strand breaks in facultative heterochromatin require specific movements and chromatin changes for efficient repair

MR Wensveen, AA Dixit, R van Schendel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) must be properly repaired within diverse chromatin
domains to maintain genome stability. Whereas euchromatin has an open structure and is …

On-and off-target effects of paired CRISPR-Cas nickase in primary human cells

J Klermund, M Rhiel, T Kocher, KO Chmielewski… - Molecular Therapy, 2024 - cell.com
Undesired on-and off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas nucleases remain a challenge in
genome editing. While the use of Cas9 nickases has been shown to minimize off-target …

Chromosomal breaks at the origin of small tandem DNA duplications

J Schimmel, MD van Wezel, R van Schendel… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small tandem DNA duplications in the range of 15 to 300 base‐pairs play an important role
in the aetiology of human disease and contribute to genome diversity. Here, we discuss …

Modulating mutational outcomes and improving precise gene editing at CRISPR-Cas9-induced breaks by chemical inhibition of end-joining pathways

J Schimmel, N Munoz-Subirana, H Kool… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Gene editing through repair of CRISPR-Cas9-induced chromosomal breaks offers a means
to correct a wide range of genetic defects. Directing repair to produce desirable outcomes by …

From fluorescent foci to sequence: Illuminating DNA double strand break repair by high-throughput sequencing technologies

X Vergara, R Schep, RH Medema, B van Steensel - DNA repair, 2022 - Elsevier
Technologies to study DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair have traditionally mostly relied
on fluorescence read-outs, either by microscopy or flow cytometry. The advent of high …

Profiling Cas9‐ and Cas12a‐induced mutagenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

S de Pater, L Kamoen, R van Schendel… - The Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
With the advancement of CRISPR technologies, a comprehensive understanding of repair
mechanisms following double‐strand break (DSB) formation is important for improving the …

Genetic dissection of mutagenic repair and T-DNA capture at CRISPR-induced DNA breaks in Arabidopsis thaliana

L Kamoen, LEM Kralemann, R van Schendel… - PNAS …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A practical and powerful approach for genome editing in plants is delivery of CRISPR
reagents via Agrobacterium tumefaciens transformation. The double-strand break (DSB) …

Comparable analysis of multiple DNA double-strand break repair pathways in CRISPR-mediated endogenous tagging

C Tei, S Hata, A Mabuchi, S Okuda, KK Ito, M Genova… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
CRISPR-mediated endogenous tagging, utilizing the homology-directed repair (HDR) of
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) with exogenously incorporated donor DNA, is a powerful …

Cell cycle regulation of polymerase theta mediated end-joining underlies its sensitivity to loss of BLM-DNA2

CP McBrine, RB Jensen, MC King - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are predominantly resolved by the error-prone non-
homologous end-joining (NHEJ) or high-fidelity homologous recombination (HR) DNA …