CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors
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Blog Post
Published
March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
...editors for more details on how they work!)
Figure 1: Base transitions are edits between the purine...side groups of DNA bases and leave the core ring structure intact, allowing them to make 4 out of the possible... Cas9 are sequence specificity and the R-loop structure.
In order to bind DNA, Cas9 requires (1) a guide... a region of separate strands called an R-loop (Figure 2). This allows the guide RNA to base pair with...accessible on the outside of the enzyme.
Figure 2: CRISPR R-loop. Created with BioRender.com.
...abasic sites with A's, producing C → A edits.
Figure 3: Mechanism of cytosine transversion editors. ...experimented with adding different proteins to the CGBE architecture. They conducted a CRISPRi screen to identify...