Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
...split protein like Cas9 is to use split inteins. Split inteins are a pair of naturally occuring polypeptides...toxicity.
More AAV-based CRISPR systems
Smaller Cas proteins
SaCas9 isn't the only CRISPR enzyme that’s small...advantage that it can be turned off by anti-CRISPR proteins. The Sontheimer lab used NmeCas9 with AAV to edit...disease-causing loci in mouse liver.
Two other smaller Cas proteins include Cas12b and CasX. While there are no papers...papers yet published that deliver these Cas proteins with AAV, at just 1,108 and 986 amino acids, respectively...polypeptides that, when at the ends of two proteins, mediates protein trans-splicing, similar to an intron...developed a split intein spCas9-AAV toolbox that retains the gene-targeting capabilities of full-length ...