Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression
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Blog Post
...while its nucleolytic activity is eliminated (Fig. 1) (1, 3). The gRNA can be further modified by incorporation... Podcast Interview with Alex Chavez
Figure 1: Schematic of native (nuclease-competent) Cas9 interacting...which Cas9 protein is directed to which target site (1). Although this is possible, this strategy suffers...sequence or regulating gene expression.
References
1. Esvelt, Kevin M., et al. "Orthogonal Cas9 proteins...which cleaves one strand of DNA upon binding the protospacer. The resulting double strand break (DSB) stimulates...two catalytic domains, HNH and RuvC, cleave DNA strands complementary and non-complementary to the gRNA... binds the target site, but does not cut either strand of DNA.
Traditional Cas9 regulators
In addition...