CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
Type
Blog Post
Published
Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
...Specific RNA cleavage (followed by non-specific RNAse activity in bacteria)
Cas13a targeting with a single...the pool of nucleotides, the nonspecific RNAse activity of Cas13a becomes activated and the RNA reporter...LwaCas13a does not display nonspecific RNA cleavage activity in eukaryotic cells. They arrived at this finding...East-Seletsky, Alexandra, et al. "Two distinct RNase activities of CRISPR-C2c2 enable guide-RNA processing and...