Good Kit for Measuring Editing Efficiency

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Company:

New England Biolabs

Product Name:

EnGen® Mutation Detection Kit

Catalog Number:

E3321S

We were interested in studying the role of DNA methylation in the differentiation of of CD4 T-cells. CRISPR-Cas9 approaches were used to knock-out epigenetic enzymes in primary cells and cell lines. This kit was used to determined the editing efficiency in the bulk cell population.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Gene editing

Starting Material

Cell lines / primary cells

Tips

The PCR conditions should be optimized to the size of your amplicon.

Results Summary

Cells were transfected with a TET1 targeting DNA cassette. After 48 hours of incubation, genomic DNA was extracted and the mutationregion was amplified. Following heteroduplex formation by denaturation& reannealing, DNA was digested with T7 endonuclease. Using a fragment analyzer, we were able to calculate the editing efficiency.

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Summary

The Good

Works well and is user friendly.

The Bad

Very expensive and a good fragment analyzer is required.

The Bottom Line

This is a good kit to determine editing efficiency in-house within a few hours and without employing sequencing techniques.

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