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| Item Type: | Review |
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| Title: | Sleeping Beauty transposition: from biology to applications |
| Creators Name: | Narayanavari, S.A., Chilkunda, S.S., Ivics, Z. and Izsvák, Z. |
| Abstract: | Sleeping Beauty (SB) is the first synthetic DNA transposon that was shown to be active in a wide variety of species. Here, we review studies from the last two decades addressing both basic biology and applications of this transposon. We discuss how host-transposon interaction modulates transposition at different steps of the transposition reaction. We also discuss how the transposon was translated for gene delivery and gene discovery purposes. We critically review the system in clinical, pre-clinical and non-clinical settings as a non-viral gene delivery tool in comparison with viral technologies. We also discuss emerging SB-based hybrid vectors aimed at combining the attractive safety features of the transposon with effective viral delivery. The success of the SB-based technology can be fundamentally attributed to being able to insert fairly randomly into genomic regions that allow stable long-term expression of the delivered transgene cassette. SB has emerged as an efficient and economical toolkit for safe and efficient gene delivery for medical applications. |
| Keywords: | Sleeping Beauty, Host-Transposon Interactions, Transposition, Non-Viral, Gene Therapy, Transgenesis, Oncogenomics, Animals |
| Source: | Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| ISSN: | 1040-9238 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Volume: | 52 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | 18-44 |
| Date: | January 2017 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10409238.2016.1237935 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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