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ReviewDNA repair2016

The democratization of gene editing: Insights from site-specific cleavage and double-strand break repair.

Maria Jasin, James E Haber

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Review in DNA repair, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
127citing papers in PubMed
14.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

127 citing papers in PubMed, 225 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Asymmetrical recognition and processing of double-strand breaks formed during DNA replication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Breeding Wheat (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  13. Homology-arm length of donor DNA affects the impact of Msh2 loss on homologous recombination-mediated gene targeting.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Maria JasinDevelopmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: m-jasin@ski.mskcc.org.
James E HaberDepartment of Biology and Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, 02454-9110, USA. Electronic address: haber@brandeis.edu.
Brandeis University · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · US

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Hongbiao Carl Lekaye · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Mutations Arising During DNA RepairP01GM105473 · NIGMS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI HABER, JAMES E · 2014 to 2018
$8.6M
Recombination Mechanisms in Yeast Cell DifferentiationR37GM020056 · NIGMS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI HABER, JAMES E · 2007 to 2016
$5.5M
RADIATION RESISTANT AND SENSITIVE CELLS DNA BREAK REPAIRR01GM054668 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI JASIN, MARIA · 1998 to 2015
$5.3M
Analysis of Break-Induced ReplicationR01GM076020 · NIGMS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI HABER, JAMES E · 2006 to 2017
$3.4M
Homologous recombination mechanisms in mammalian cellsR35GM118175 · NIGMS · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI JASIN, MARIA · 2016 to 2020
$2.6M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM105473NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM054668NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076020NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118175NIGMS NIH HHS R37 GM020056
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are dangerous lesions that if not properly repaired can lead to genomic change or cell death. Organisms have developed several pathways and have many factors devoted to repairing DSBs, which broadly occurs by homologous recombination, which relies on an identical or homologous sequence to template repair, or nonhomologous end-joining. Much of our understanding of these repair mechanisms has come from the study of induced DNA cleavage by site-specific endonucleases. In addition to their biological role, these cellular pathways can be co-opted for gene editing to study gene function or for gene therapy or other applications. While the first gene editing experiments were done more than 20 years ago, the recent discovery of RNA-guided endonucleases has simplified approaches developed over the years to make gene editing an approach that is available to the entire biomedical research community. Here, we review DSB repair mechanisms and site-specific cleavage systems that have provided insight into these mechanisms and led to the current gene editing revolution.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA End-Joining RepairDNA Mismatch RepairRecombinational DNA RepairBacterial ProteinsClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-SpecificDNADNA Breaks, Double-StrandedEndodeoxyribonucleasesEndonucleasesGene EditingHumansRNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsBacterial ProteinsCas9 protein, Francisella novicidaCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-SpecificDNAEndodeoxyribonucleasesEndonucleasesI-Ppo endonucleasematurase I-AniIRNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSCEI protein, S cerevisiaeTranscription Activator-Like Effector NucleasesCRISPR-Cas9Double-strand break repairGene editingHO endonucleaseHomologous recombinationHomology-directed repairI-SceI endonucleaseNonhomologous end-joining

Identifiers

PMID27261202
PMCPMC5529214
OpenAlexW2371599855

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