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ReviewCells2020

Improving Precise CRISPR Genome Editing by Small Molecules: Is there a Magic Potion?

Nadja Bischoff, Sandra Wimberger, Marcello Maresca, Cord Brakebusch

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In one paragraph

Review in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nadja BischoffBiotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sandra WimbergerDiscovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 43 183 Mölndal, Sweden.
Marcello MarescaDiscovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Pepparedsleden 1, 43 183 Mölndal, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0796-661X
Cord BrakebuschBiotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
AstraZeneca (Sweden) · SEUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) genome editing has become a standard method in molecular biology, for the establishment of genetically modified cellular and animal models, for the identification and validation of drug targets in animals, and is heavily tested for use in gene therapy of humans. While the efficiency of CRISPR mediated gene targeting is much higher than of classical targeted mutagenesis, the efficiency of CRISPR genome editing to introduce defined changes into the genome is still low. Overcoming this problem will have a great impact on the use of CRISPR genome editing in academic and industrial research and the clinic. This review will present efforts to achieve this goal by small molecules, which modify the DNA repair mechanisms to facilitate the precise alteration of the genome.

Indexed as

Gene EditingAnimalsCell CycleCRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA DamageDNA RepairHumansSmall Molecule LibrariesSmall Molecule LibrariesCRISPR efficiencyhomology directed repairlow molecular weight compounds

Identifiers

PMID32466303
PMCPMC7291049
OpenAlexW3026324878

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