About the Authors

Hyojin Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyojin Kim, Myung-Sun Kim, Gabbine Wee

Affiliation National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Genome Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Myung-Sun Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyojin Kim, Myung-Sun Kim, Gabbine Wee

Affiliation Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering/College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Gabbine Wee

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyojin Kim, Myung-Sun Kim, Gabbine Wee

Affiliation National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Genome Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Choong-il Lee

Affiliation National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Genome Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Hyongbum Kim

jskim01@snu.ac.kr (J-SK); hkim1@hanyang.ac.kr (HK)

Affiliation Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering/College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Jin-Soo Kim

jskim01@snu.ac.kr (J-SK); hkim1@hanyang.ac.kr (HK)

Affiliation National Creative Research Initiatives Center for Genome Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Competing Interests

J-SK filed a patent application (US 61/445,346, patent name: Methods for enriching cells containing nuclease-induced gene disruptions) based on this work. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Hyojin Kim M-SK GW Hyongbum Kim J-SK. Performed the experiments: Hyojin Kim M-SK GW CL. Analyzed the data: Hyojin Kim M-SK GW Hyongbum Kim J-SK. Wrote the paper: Hyongbum Kim J-SK.