xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility
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...enrich for Cas9 variants with activity on non-NGG PAMs, generating xCas9 3.0-3.13.
To test xCas9 3.0-3.13...available at Addgene.
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Learn about Engineered Cas9 PAM Variants...select for Cas9 mutants with PAM flexibility. In this system, the mutagenesis plasmid (MP6) permits quick...of the gene of interest. They created a selection phage (SP) to carry catalytically dead SpCas9 (dCas9...protospacer. If ω-dCas9 could recognize a library PAM, it would induce transcription of gene III, permitting...In order to bind DNA, Cas9 and other CRISPR enzymes require a short PAM sequence adjacent to the targeted...problem, researchers have engineered alternative Cas9s binding distinct PAM sequences. Now, Hu et al., ...