CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
...town, and other Cas proteins like SaCas9 and Cpf1 can circumvent the limitations associated with SpCas9...activation of the fluorophore. The fluorescent signal can be used as an indicator to determine whether the ...its structure and function? For starters, Cas13a can be used to bind and cleave target RNAs, although ...the exciting discovery that some Cas13a orthologs can function in mammalian and plant cells (Abudayyeh ...the protein in mammalian cells. LwaCas13a-msfGFP can mediate cleavage with spacers from 20-28 nucleotides...From this analysis, they identified 53 potential candidate genes that fell into 3 categories based on the...question: C2c1, C2c2 and C2c3 (short for Class 2, candidate 1, 2, or 3). C2c1 and C2c3 are related to Cpf1...