CRISPR-U™ technology (CRISPR based), developed by Ubigene, is more efficient than general
CRISPR/Cas9 technology in double-strand breaking and homologous recombination. With CRISPR-U™, Ubigene has
successfully edited over 3000 genes on more than 200 types of cell lines.
Objective
To create a Human DFFA Knockout
model in cell line by CRISPR-U™-mediated genome engineering.
Target gene info
Official symbol
DFFA
Gene id
1676
Organism
Homo sapiens
Gene type
protein-coding
Official full symbol
DNA fragmentation factor subunit alpha
Also known as
DFF-45, DFF1, ICAD
Genomic regions
Chromosome 1
Summary
Apoptosis is a cell death process that removes toxic and/or useless cells during mammalian development. The apoptotic process is accompanied by shrinkage and fragmentation of the cells and nuclei and degradation of the chromosomal DNA into nucleosomal units. DNA fragmentation factor (DFF) is a heterodimeric protein of 40-kD (DFFB) and 45-kD (DFFA) subunits. DFFA is the substrate for caspase-3 and triggers DNA fragmentation during apoptosis. DFF becomes activated when DFFA is cleaved by caspase-3. The cleaved fragments of DFFA dissociate from DFFB, the active component of DFF. DFFB has been found to trigger both DNA fragmentation and chromatin condensation during apoptosis. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been found for this gene.
Strategy Summary
This gene has 0 protein coding transcripts：
Frame-shift
Fragment A
Fragment B
gRNA Detail
Strategy
Project Comprehensive Difficulty Assessment
According to the Red Cotton database: the CRISPR gene-editing strategy design is Unknown. Knockout project comprehensive difficulty is thus assessed as Unknown.
Red Cotton™ Notes
Gene
DFFA
had been KO in hela cell line.
EZ-editor™ Gene Dependency
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EZ-editor™ Gene Dependency
Result
The DFFA gene you inquire is evaluated as high risk
in 0%
cell line.
Cell line is not selected, unable to assess the accurate risk level, for reference only.
In all cell lines, there is
5.0% cells with low expression level,
95.0% cells with medium expression level
of DFFA gene.
Cell line is not selected, unable to assess the accurate expression level, for reference only.
In all cell lines, there is
66.4% cells with low copy number,
30.4% cells with medium copy number,
3.2% cells with high copy number
of DFFA gene.
Cell line is not selected, unable to assess the accurate copy number, for reference only.
Ubigene is an international high-technology enterprise focused on gene-editing cells. Our exclusive CRISPR-U™ technology has 10-20 times more efficient editing than traditional methods, easily achieving gene knockout, point mutation, and knock-in. Based on CRISPR-U™ technology, Ubigene has accumulated over 6000 successful gene-editing cases from more than 300 cell lines including iPSC and ESC, and has established a KO Cell Line Bank with 4500+ KO cell lines and Red Cotton™ gRNA Plasmid Bank with 10000+ gRNA plasmids available in stock.
Ubigene focuses on technological innovation and product development, of which EZ-editor™ series products that cover the whole workflow of gene-editing keep improving. Ubigene will move on toward our goal of "Make genome editing easier" and we won't stop!
EZ-editor™ Gene Dependency
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