Strategies to increase genome editing frequencies and to facilitate the identification of edited cells

Abstract

The power of genome editing is increasingly recognized as it has become more accessible to a wide range of scientists and a wider range of uses has been reported. Nonetheless, an important practical aspect of the strategy is develop methods to increase the frequency of genome editing or methods that enrich for genome-edited cells such that they can be more easily identified. This chapter discusses several different approaches including the use of cold-shock, exonucleases, surrogate markers, specialized donor vectors, and oligonucleotides to enhance the frequency of genome editing or to facilitate the identification of genome-edited cells.