Research progress of CRISPR-Cas9 system for gene therapy.
- Author:
Changsheng ZHAN
1
;
Xiaoyu XIA
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: CRISPR-Cas9 technology; disease model; gene editing; gene therapy; personalized medicine
- MeSH: CRISPR-Cas Systems; Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats; Gene Editing; Genetic Therapy; Humans; Plasmids
- From: Chinese Journal of Biotechnology 2016;32(7):861-869
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: The clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeat-Cas9 (CRISPR-Cas9) system is the part of the prokaryotic immune system, which could recognize and delete the exogenous sequences originated from virus or plasmid. Based on its mechanism, CRISPR-Cas9 system was developed into the new generation of gene editing tool. Compared to the existed technologies such as ES targeting, ZFN or TALEN, CRISPR-Cas9 system is a more efficient, economical and promising approach to manipulate the genome. In this review, we summarize the research progress about CRISPR-Cas9 technology, especially the latest applications in gene therapy studies of human diseases.
