Francisella novicida Cas9 interrogates genomic DNA with very high specificity and can be used for mammalian genome editing
Sundaram Acharya, Arpit Mishra, Deepanjan Paul, Asgar Hussain Ansari, Mohd. Azhar, Manoj Kumar, Riya Rauthan, Namrata Sharma, Meghali Aich, Dipanjali Sinha, Saumya Sharma, Shivani Jain, Arjun Ray, Suman Jain, Sivaprakash Ramalingam, , Debojyoti Chakraborty
This paper demonstrates that Francisella novicida Cas9 (FnCas9) has high specificity and low off-target editing, enabling precise genome editing in mammalian cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Sep 30, 2019Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology