CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
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...have high sequence identity to the spacer sequence and contain the appropriate PAM sequence. The non-specific...protospacer flanking sequence (PFS) for LshCas13a, which is analogous to the PAM sequence for Cas9, is located...recognized and cleaved its target RNA sequence as specified by the crRNA sequence, it adopts an enzymatically “...targeting the sequence of interest and an inactivated fluorescent RNA reporter. If the target sequence is present...single mismatches between the crRNA and target sequence, however cutting efficiency of Cas13a is reduced...located at the 3’ end of the spacer sequence and consists of a single A, U, or C base pair.
In bacteria... A pool of DNA or RNA nucleotides containing a sequence of interest (red) is amplified using Recombinase...