Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
Oct. 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
...mediate cleavage rather than the multi-subunit complex employed by class 1 systems. A putative new class...Cpf1 (FnCpf1), they employed an E. coli plasmid depletion assay to discover FnCpf1’s PAM sequence requirements...than following it. The Cpf1 crRNA is also much simpler in structure than Cas9’s; only a short stem-loop...CRISPR systems based on Cas9 were thought to be the simplest CRISPR systems and the easiest to adapt to genome...vectors. In 2017, Zetsche et al. developed a Cpf1 multiplexing approach using a single crRNA array to express...varies widely with gRNA sequence.
Both groups used multiple methods to examine Cpf1 off-target editing. First...publication at Addgene.
2. Zetsche, Bernd, et al. "Multiplex Gene Editing by CRISPR–Cpf1 Using a Single crRNA...