xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility
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...through directed evolution
Hu et al. used phage-assisted evolution to generate and select for Cas9 mutants...mutants with PAM flexibility. In this system, the mutagenesis plasmid (MP6) permits quick, large-scale mutation...and subjected them to another 72 hours of phage-assisted evolution, generating xCas9 2.0-2.6. This second...where cleavage leads to the loss of spectinomycin resistance. xCas9 3.7 showed the broadest PAM range, recognizing... PAM for SpCas9.
Hu et al. performed GUIDE-seq analysis to characterize genome-wide off-targets, since...