Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 5, 2019, 1:28 p.m.
...isolated from different organisms and engineered Cas9 variants that were able to target different PAM sites...activity of Sniper-Cas9 to different Cas9 variants using gRNAs of different lengths (Lee et al., 2018)...found in other species can recognize a variety of different PAM sequences. Researchers have also used experimental...specificity can target more sites. Created with BioRender.com.
Specificity
Specificity is the assessment...relative to eSpCas9 and SpCas9-HF across a number of different sites. Using a combined random and directed mutagenesis...choosing a Cas protein for your experiment.
References
Hu, Johnny H., et al. "Evolved Cas9 variants ...