Zinc finger nuclease
CLASS OF ARTIFICIAL ENZYMES
Zinc finger nucleases; Zinc finger protein nucleases; Zinc-finger nuclease; Nucleasas con dedos de zinc; ZFNs
Zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) are artificial restriction enzymes generated by fusing a zinc finger DNA-binding domain to a DNA-cleavage domain. Zinc finger domains can be engineered to target specific desired DNA sequences and this enables zinc-finger nucleases to target unique sequences within complex genomes.