CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...Nature Cell Biology, 26(2), 294–304. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41556-023-01342-2
Koblan, L. W., Arbab, M...adjacent DNA to create a region of separate strands called an R-loop (Figure 2). This allows the guide RNA to...order to bind DNA, Cas9 requires (1) a guide RNA, (2) a complementary DNA sequence, and (3) a protospacer-adjacent...accessible on the outside of the enzyme.
Figure 2: CRISPR R-loop. Created with BioRender.com.
Base...), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0592-2
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CRISPR 101...while Cas9 is bound, keeping the two DNA strands separate and preventing repair based on the complementary...The structure formed by Cas9 binding to DNA and separating the two strands. The guide RNA base pairs to ...