CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
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...engineering tool. It is easy to use, functional in most species, and has many applications. That said, SpCas9...terms of structure, Cas13a shares no homology to the most commonly used CRISPR enzymes - Cas13a contains two...specifically targeted RNAs.
Finally (and perhaps most interesting), Cas13a’s propensity to cleave any ...