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ArticleiScience2025

Catalytically inactive Cas9 attenuates DNA end resection: A potential application for region-restricted random mutagenesis.

Suchin Towa, Satoshi Okada, Takashi Ito

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Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors.

Suchin TowaDepartment of Biochemistry, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Satoshi OkadaDepartment of Biochemistry, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
Takashi ItoDepartment of Biochemistry, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene duplication followed by sequence diversification is a key driver of innovation in genome evolution. To mimic this process in genome engineering, a method for region-restricted mutagenesis is needed to selectively mutate one copy of a duplicated gene. Notably, regions flanking a double-strand break (DSB) become hypersensitive to mutagens due to end resection, which converts them into single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). Blocking end resection could, therefore, confine hypermutation to a limited region. To achieve this, we investigated a catalytically inactive variant of

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PMID40520111
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