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Inactivation of Hepatitis B Virus Replication in Cultured Cells and In Vivo with Engineered Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nucleases

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Efficacy in vivo indicates that these engineered nucleases have potential for use in treatment of chronic HBV infection and are the first to demonstrate a targeted nuclease-mediated disruption of HBV cccDNA.
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This article is published in Molecular Therapy.The article was published on 2013-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 220 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: cccDNA & Transcription activator-like effector nuclease.

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A guide to genome engineering with programmable nucleases

TL;DR: Known nuclease-specific features are essential for researchers to choose the most appropriate tool for a range of applications, including their composition, targetable sites, specificities and mutation signatures, among other characteristics.
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Therapeutic genome editing: prospects and challenges

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss current progress toward developing programmable nuclease-based therapies as well as future prospects and challenges, and discuss the potential to directly correct genetic mutations in affected tissues and cells to treat diseases that are refractory to traditional therapies.

Therapeutic genome editing: prospects and challenges

TL;DR: Current progress toward developing programmable nuclease–based therapies as well as future prospects and challenges are discussed.
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HBV cccDNA: viral persistence reservoir and key obstacle for a cure of chronic hepatitis B

Michael Nassal
- 03 Jun 2015 - 
TL;DR: This review aims to summarise current knowledge on ccc DNA molecular biology, to highlight the experimental restrictions that have hitherto hampered faster progress and to discuss cccDNA as target for new, potentially curative therapies of chronic hepatitis B.
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Genome-editing Technologies for Gene and Cell Therapy

TL;DR: The mechanisms of different genome-editing strategies are presented and each of the common nuclease-based platforms, including zinc finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), meganucleases, and the CRISPR/Cas9 system are described.
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Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

TL;DR: The type II prokaryotic CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas adaptive immune system has been shown to facilitate RNA-guided site-specific DNA cleavage as discussed by the authors.

Image processing with ImageJ

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Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems

TL;DR: Two different type II CRISPR/Cas systems are engineered and it is demonstrated that Cas9 nucleases can be directed by short RNAs to induce precise cleavage at endogenous genomic loci in human and mouse cells, demonstrating easy programmability and wide applicability of the RNA-guided nuclease technology.
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High-frequency off-target mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells.

TL;DR: It is found that single and double mismatches are tolerated to varying degrees depending on their position along the guide RNA (gRNA)-DNA interface, and off-target cleavage of CRISPR-associated (Cas)9-based RGNs is characterized.
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Efficient genome editing in zebrafish using a CRISPR-Cas system

TL;DR: It is shown 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 and transcription activator-like effector nucleases.
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