A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology
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Cas9 has two major lobes, called NUC (for nuclease) and REC...gray). Target DNA strand, light gray.
Once it has found a PAM site, Cas9 needs to check for complementarity...orange) and HNH (red) domains, while the REC lobe has been hidden for visibility. A RuvC loop caps the ... and different techniques all bring their own advantages—and blind spots—to these questions. Each new ...