CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
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Blog Post
Published
July 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
...a 30 nt guide when C or U base-flips are present across from the target base. However, they saw that in...Cas13 enzymes prefer targets with a given single base protospacer flanking site (PFS) sequence, but orthologs...so they cannot directly edit the genome. A Cas13-based RNA editing system would likely be reversible and...it is sensitive to mismatches in target RNA from bases 12-26 of a 30 nt target sequence.
For the editing...targeting work with Cas13, REPAIR is the first CRISPR-based system to enable precise RNA editing. The addition...al. “A cytosine deaminase for programmable single-base RNA editing.” Science 2019 Jul 26;365(6451):382-...RNA Targeting with Cas13a
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