| Literature DB >> 25741005 |
Ming Yuan1, Wensheng Zhang2, Jun Wang1, Chadwan Al Yaghchi1, Jahangir Ahmed1, Louisa Chard1, Nick R Lemoine3, Yaohe Wang3.
Abstract
Vaccinia virus (VACV) continues to be used in immunotherapy for the prevention of infectious diseases and treatment of cancer since its use for the eradication of smallpox. However, the current method of editing the VACV genome is not efficient. Here, we demonstrate that the CRISPR-Cas9 system can be used to edit the VACV genome rapidly and efficiently. Additionally, a set of 8,964 computationally designed unique guide RNAs (gRNAs) targeting all VACV genes will be valuable for the study of VACV gene functions.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25741005 PMCID: PMC4403460 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00339-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103