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US 10,683,490 · App. 16/440,241 · Granted Jun 16, 2020

Mutant Cas9 proteins

Inventors: Alejandro Chavez (New York, NY); Frank J. Poelwijk (Dallas, TX); George M. Church (Brookline, MA)
Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
C12N9/22C07H21/04C12Q1/6897C12Y301/00G01N33/573G01N2333/922
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Patent No.
US 10,683,490
App. No.
16/440,241
Granted
Jun 16, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Methods of making mutant Cas9 proteins are described.

Claims (5)

1. A mutant Neisseria meningitides Cas9 protein (NM-Cas9) lacking one or more stretches of amino acid sequences within a family of Cas9 proteins, wherein the one or more stretches of amino acid sequences are of low conservation or are between conservation edges, and wherein the mutant NM-Cas9 protein has DNA binding activity.

2. The mutant NM-Cas9 protein of claim 1 having nuclease activity.

3. The mutant NM-Cas9 protein of claim 1 having nickase activity.

4. The mutant NM-Cas9 protein of claim 1 being nuclease null.

5. The mutant NM-Cas 9 protein of claim 1 including one or more SGGGS linkers.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 17, 2019
From: CHAVEZ, ALEJANDRO; CHURCH, GEORGE M.; POELWIJK, FRANK J.
To: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Reel/Frame 049482/0530 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 16157481 · Oct 11, 2018
Division 15037696
Provisional Application 61906374 · Nov 19, 2013
Related Publication 20190367892A1 · Dec 5, 2019
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