The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment
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... engineering Cas9 variants with a preference for specific PAMs. Though near-PAMless Cas9s can broadly ...editing was invented in David Liu’s lab by combining Cas9 DNA-targeting technology with a fused cytidine deaminase...effects in a variety of RNA transcripts independent of Cas9 targeting (Rees et al., 2019). The Liu lab characterized... and eight bases, close to the PAM recognized by Cas9. If no PAM is available nearby, a base editor may...Kleinstiver’s lab engineered new variants of S. pyogenes Cas9. While the wild-type enzyme requires a PAM sequence... models tested both the SpG and SpRY variants of Cas9. With many PAMs available, a large number of gRNAs...efficient editing. In these initial experiments, SpG Cas9 came out on top.
Narrowing PAM preferences
The Kleinstiver...