CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?
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...CRISPR/Cas9 has made it easier than ever to make precise, targeted genome modifications. Cas9 has been modified...which one of Cas9’s two critical enzymatic residues has been converted to an alanine (D10A or H840A), changing... for your experiment, ensure your sgRNA sequence has little homology to other regions of the genome and...looser PAM requirements compared to SpCas9. xCas9 has a PAM requirement of NG, GAA, or GAT, making it a...SpG variant, discovered by the Kleinstiver group has a PAM of NGN (Walton et al., 2020). Further, this...reverse transcriptase, and a nCas9. While this system has been shown to be less efficient than base editing...directly fusing the cargo to dCas9. This technique has been exploited to localize factors such as transcriptional...