This invention provides a designed
protein that can be used as a
genome engineering tool. The
protein of this invention has, in the
amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, a substitution at
amino acid position 188 to
histidine, and further has one substitution selected from the following: a substitution at
amino acid position 2 to
tyrosine, a substitution at amino acid position 70 to
tyrosine, a substitution at amino acid position 80 to
arginine, a substitution at amino acid position 105 to
threonine, a substitution at amino acid position 123 to
histidine, a substitution at amino acid position 195 to
lysine, a substitution at amino acid position 208 to
arginine, a substitution at amino acid position 232 to
alanine, a substitution at amino acid position 246 to
methionine, a substitution at amino acid position 316 to
methionine, or a substitution at amino acid position 337 to
isoleucine.