Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...Note: Cpf1 is also called Cas12a.
In 2015, Feng Zhang’s lab characterized two Cpf1 nucleases, distant...editing. LbCpf1 and AsCpf1 are 3.7 kb and 3.9 kb in length, respectively, larger than SaCas9 but smaller than...deletions at the 3’ end of the target sequence.
Cpf1’s strength may lie in its low off-target editing rates, determined...