Frequency and mechanisms of LINE-1 retrotransposon insertions at CRISPR/Cas9 sites

The identification of events occurring at target sites is critical to determine the safety of CRISPRbased DNA editing tools. Here, the authors show that LINE-1 retrotranspositions can occur frequently at canonical CRISPR/Cas9 editing sites, but are rare with prime editors and base editors.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jianli Tao, Qi Wang, Carlos Mendez-Dorantes, Kathleen H. Burns, Roberto Chiarle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31322-3