Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
...world by storm. Like RNA interference, these enzymes can knock down RNA without altering the genome, but Cas13s..., the Cas13d orthologs described in these papers can independently process their own CRISPR arrays into... require a protospacer flanking sequence, so you can target virtually any RNA sequence! In bacteria, Cas13d-mediated...efficiency; where shRNA treatment produced 500-900 significant off-targets, CasRx displayed zero. Unlike Cas9...