Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 5, 2019, 1:28 p.m.
...appropriate for your specific research question.
Considerations when choosing your Cas nuclease
When choosing...experiments, there are three important factors to consider: site accessibility, specificity, and sensitivity...cleaves a site that is not a perfect match to the guide RNA (gRNA) used to target the genomic locus of interest...interest. As these off-target effects can be genome-wide and, in some cases, difficult to determine, the ... off-target cleavage should be an important consideration during any experiment.
Sensitivity
Cas9 sensitivity...measured by calculating the on-target activity divided by the off-target activity.
Figure 2: Specificity...engineered Cas9, SpCas9-NG, which required only the di-nucleotide PAM NG (Nishimasu et al., 2018). The David Liu...