A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
...nucleotides 1-10 of the guide RNA, prearranged for base pairing with a complementary DNA strand. These 10...4CMP) with domains colored as in Figure 1. HNH, red; RuvC, orange; CTD, yellow; REC lobe, light blue; bridge...10.1146/annurev-biophys-062215-010822
Nishimasu, H., Ran, F. A., Hsu, P. D., Konermann, S., Shehata, S. I.... 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... 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...