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ArticleNucleic acids research2011

Efficient design and assembly of custom TALEN and other TAL effector-based constructs for DNA targeting.

Tomas Cermak, Erin L Doyle, Michelle Christian, Li Wang, Yong Zhang, Clarice Schmidt, Joshua A Baller, Nikunj V Somia, Adam J Bogdanove, Daniel F Voytas

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1,079 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tomas CermakDepartment of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development and Center for Genome Engineering, 321 Church Street SE, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Erin L Doyle
Michelle Christian
Li Wang
Yong Zhang
Clarice Schmidt
Joshua A Baller
Nikunj V Somia
Adam J Bogdanove
Daniel F Voytas
Iowa State University · USUniversity of Minnesota Rochester · USUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of China · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TALENs are important new tools for genome engineering. Fusions of transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors of plant pathogenic Xanthomonas spp. to the FokI nuclease, TALENs bind and cleave DNA in pairs. Binding specificity is determined by customizable arrays of polymorphic amino acid repeats in the TAL effectors. We present a method and reagents for efficiently assembling TALEN constructs with custom repeat arrays. We also describe design guidelines based on naturally occurring TAL effectors and their binding sites. Using software that applies these guidelines, in nine genes from plants, animals and protists, we found candidate cleavage sites on average every 35 bp. Each of 15 sites selected from this set was cleaved in a yeast-based assay with TALEN pairs constructed with our reagents. We used two of the TALEN pairs to mutate HPRT1 in human cells and ADH1 in Arabidopsis thaliana protoplasts. Our reagents include a plasmid construct for making custom TAL effectors and one for TAL effector fusions to additional proteins of interest. Using the former, we constructed de novo a functional analog of AvrHah1 of Xanthomonas gardneri. The complete plasmid set is available through the non-profit repository AddGene and a web-based version of our software is freely accessible online.

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Gene TargetingAmino Acid SequenceArabidopsisBase SequenceDeoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-SpecificDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA CleavageHumansMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesisProtein EngineeringProtoplastsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRepetitive Sequences, Amino AcidSoftwareTrans-ActivatorsDeoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-SpecificDNA-Binding Proteinsendodeoxyribonuclease FokIRecombinant Fusion ProteinsTrans-Activators

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PMID21493687
PMCPMC3130291
OpenAlexW2168245648

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