Are Hybrid Guide RNAs Right for Your CRISPR Application?
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Blog Post
Published
Jan. 27, 2026, 2:14 p.m.
...dramatically reduce CRISPR efficiency, and DNA substitutions don’t fare much better: they largely abolished...recognizes the 2’-OH of RNA in this region, and DNA substitutions dramatically reduced cleavage (Kim et al., 2020...scaffold sequences have different tolerances for substitution of DNA bases. Created with BioRender.com.
...matches, the complex is stable enough that the DNA substitution doesn’t disrupt it. Combined with the reduced...access these kinds of tools.
Location of DNA substitution
Similar on-target efficacy
Reduced off-target...Different targets benefit most from different DNA substitutions, although there are commonalities that may suggest...