Conformational control of DNA target cleavage by CRISPR–Cas9

Cas9 is an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease that targets foreign DNA for destruction as part of a bacterial adaptive immune system mediated by CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)1,2. Together with single-guide RNAs (sgRNA)3, Cas9 also functions as a powerful genome engineer...

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Main Authors: Sternberg, Samuel H., LaFrance, Benjamin, Kaplan, Matias, Doudna, Jennifer A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859810/