CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
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...thought to activate programmed cell death or a dormant state for bacterial cells that have been infected with...bacterial cells, LwaCas13a does not display nonspecific RNA cleavage activity in eukaryotic cells. They arrived...target RNAs, although its usefulness in bacterial cells will likely be limited by the propensity of Cas13a...pool of RNAs) or studying RNA processing in live cells. Indeed, groups have utilized dCas13 fusion proteins...genotype human DNA, identify tumor mutations within cell-free genomic DNA, and detect COVID-19 (Joung, Ladha...Ladha et al., 2020).
Cas13a in mammalian cells
The Zhang lab made the exciting discovery that some Cas13a...Cas13a orthologs can function in mammalian and plant cells (Abudayyeh et al., 2017). They characterized Cas13a...