xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 28, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
...adjacent to the targeted sequence at the locus of interest. SpCas9’s 3’ NGG PAM occurs frequently in GC-rich...progress we’ve made, there is still a need for and interest in enzymes with shorter PAM sequences and/or broader...permits quick, large-scale mutation of the gene of interest. They created a selection phage (SP) to carry ...-3.13.
To test xCas9 3.0-3.13, Hu et al. first restored catalytic residues D10 and H840. To ensure that...