Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...cousins of well-known Cas9. Cpf1 cleaves DNA in a staggered pattern and requires only one RNA rather than ...2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227.
Potential advantages of Cpf1
Type II CRISPR systems based on Cas9 ...nt upstream of the PAM site, Cpf1 cleaves in a staggered fashion, creating a 5 nucleotide 5’ overhang 18... 18-23 bases away from the PAM. Cpf1’s staggered cleavage pattern opens up the possibility of directional... off-target editing rates, determined using sophisticated genome-wide analysis. At many of its computationally...