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ArticleMolecular therapy. Methods & clinical development2017

A One-Step PCR-Based Assay to Evaluate the Efficiency and Precision of Genomic DNA-Editing Tools.

Diego Germini, Yara Bou Saada, Tatiana Tsfasman, Kristina Osina, Chloé Robin, Nikolay Lomov, Mikhail Rubtsov, Nikolajs Sjakste, Mar Lipinski, Yegor Vassetzky

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Article in Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Diego GerminiUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Yara Bou SaadaUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Tatiana TsfasmanUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Kristina OsinaUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Chloé RobinUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Nikolay LomovUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Mikhail RubtsovLIA 1066, French-Russian Joint Cancer Research Laboratory, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Nikolajs SjaksteUniversity of Latvia, 1586 Riga, Latvia.
Mar LipinskiUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Yegor VassetzkyUMR8126, Université Paris Sud - Paris Saclay, CNRS, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif, France.
Université Paris-Sud · FRCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRInstitut Gustave Roussy · FRLomonosov Moscow State University · RUSechenov University · RUUniversity of Latvia · LV

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite rapid progress, many problems and limitations persist and limit the applicability of gene-editing techniques. Making use of meganucleases, TALENs, or CRISPR/Cas9-based tools requires an initial step of pre-screening to determine the efficiency and specificity of the designed tools. This step remains time consuming and material consuming. Here we propose a simple, cheap, reliable, time-saving, and highly sensitive method to evaluate a given gene-editing tool based on its capacity to induce chromosomal translocations when combined with a reference engineered nuclease. In the proposed technique, designated engineered nuclease-induced translocations (ENIT), a plasmid coding for the DNA-editing tool to be tested is co-transfected into carefully chosen target cells along with that for an engineered nuclease of known specificity and efficiency. If the new enzyme efficiently cuts within the desired region, then specific chromosomal translocations will be generated between the two targeted genomic regions and be readily detectable by a one-step PCR or qPCR assay. The PCR product thus obtained can be directly sequenced, thereby determining the exact position of the double-strand breaks induced by the gene-editing tools. As a proof of concept, ENIT was successfully tested in different cell types and with different meganucleases, TALENs, and CRISPR/Cas9-based editing tools.

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