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ArticleNucleic acids research2024

Peptide nucleic acid-assisted generation of targeted double-stranded DNA breaks with T7 endonuclease I.

Rashid Aman, Muntjeeb M Syed, Ahmed Saleh, Firdaws Melliti, Sivakrishna Rao Gundra, Qiaochu Wang, Tin Marsic, Ahmed Mahas, Magdy M Mahfouz

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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9 authors.

Rashid AmanLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6549-4887
Muntjeeb M SyedLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed SalehLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Firdaws MellitiLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Sivakrishna Rao GundraLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Qiaochu WangLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Tin MarsicLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed MahasLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.
Magdy M MahfouzLaboratory for Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-0616-6365

Funding

baseline BAS/1/1035-01-01King Abdullah University of Science and Technology SHI/1/5490-01-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene-editing technologies have revolutionized biotechnology, but current gene editors suffer from several limitations. Here, we harnessed the power of gamma-modified peptide nucleic acids (γPNAs) to facilitate targeted, specific DNA invasion and used T7 endonuclease I (T7EI) to recognize and cleave the γPNA-invaded DNA. Our data show that T7EI can specifically target PNA-invaded linear and circular DNA to introduce double-strand breaks (DSBs). Our PNA-Guided T7EI (PG-T7EI) technology demonstrates that T7EI can be used as a programmable nuclease capable of generating single or multiple specific DSBs in vitro under a broad range of conditions and could be potentially applied for large-scale genomic manipulation. With no protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) constraints and featuring a compact protein size, our PG-T7EI system will facilitate and expand DNA manipulations both in vitro and in vivo, including cloning, large-fragment DNA assembly, and gene editing, with exciting applications in biotechnology, medicine, agriculture, and synthetic biology.

Indexed as

Deoxyribonuclease IDNA Breaks, Double-StrandedPeptide Nucleic AcidsDNADNA, CircularGene EditingDeoxyribonuclease IDNADNA, CircularPeptide Nucleic Acids

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PMID38421613
PMCPMC11014363

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