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SUBMITTER: Hwang WY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3686313 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hwang Woong Y WY Fu Yanfang Y Reyon Deepak D Maeder Morgan L ML Tsai Shengdar Q SQ Sander Jeffry D JD Peterson Randall T RT Yeh J-R Joanna JR Joung J Keith JK
Nature biotechnology 20130129 3
In bacteria, foreign nucleic acids are silenced by clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)--CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems. Bacterial type II CRISPR systems have been adapted to create guide RNAs that direct site-specific DNA cleavage by the Cas9 endonuclease in cultured cells. Here we show that the CRISPR-Cas system functions in vivo to induce targeted genetic modifications in zebrafish embryos with efficiencies similar to those obtained using zinc finger nucleases ...[more]