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Targeted genome engineering in human cells with the Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease

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We employ the CRISPR-Cas system of Streptococcus pyogenes as programmable RNA-guided endonucleases (RGENs) to cleave DNA in a targeted manner for genome editing in human cells. We show that complexes of the Cas9 protein and artificial chimeric RNAs efficiently cleave two genomic sites and induce indels with frequencies of up to 33%.

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Figure 1: RGEN-catalyzed cleavage of plasmid DNA in vitro and in cellula.
Figure 2: RGEN-driven mutations at endogenous chromosomal sites.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (2012-0001225) and ToolGen, Inc. We thank Jae Kyung Chon for bioinformatic analysis.

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  1. National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Genome Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

    Seung Woo Cho, Sojung Kim, Jong Min Kim & Jin-Soo Kim

  2. Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

    Seung Woo Cho, Sojung Kim, Jong Min Kim & Jin-Soo Kim

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S.W.C., S.K. and J.M.K. performed the experiments. J.-S.K. wrote the manuscript.

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Cho, S., Kim, S., Kim, J. et al. Targeted genome engineering in human cells with the Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease. Nat Biotechnol 31, 230–232 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2507

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