Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?
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Blog Post
...Argonaute proteins play an important role in RNA interference, binding RNA guides to cleave foreign RNA. Argonaute...editing efficiency. Gao et al. tested if NgAgo preferred certain guide sequences - using 5 guides/gene ...gene for 10 genes, they did not observe differences in cleavage efficiency. If this finding is replicated...) or staggered (Cpf1) cleavage. NgAgo takes a different approach, randomly removing 1-20 nucleotides from...Read About NgAgo User's First Impressions Here
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1. Gao, Feng, Xiao Z. Shen, Feng Jiang, Yongqiang...
2. Swarts, Daan C., et al. “DNA-guided DNA interference by a prokaryotic Argonaute.” Nature. 507(7491...