A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology
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Blog Post
Published
June 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
... basic parts of the Cas9 enzyme.
Figure 1: A cartoon depiction of Cas9’s two major lobes, REC...the CRISPR system (Nishimasu et al., 2014).
Table 1. Summary of Cas9 domains, the lobe each domain belongs...state (PDB ID 4CMP) with domains colored as in Figure 1. HNH, red; RuvC, orange; CTD, yellow; REC lobe, light... on itself at the bottom of the image. Stem loops 1 and 2 extend horizontally across both lobes. The guide...outside of the protein, spanning both lobes. Stem loop 1, nestled between the REC and CTD domains, is required...Within an interior cavity, Cas9 grips nucleotides 1-10 of the guide RNA, prearranged for base pairing ...343–347. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04470-1
Cofsky, J. C., Soczek, K. M., Knott, G. J., Nogales...