Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression
Type
Blog Post
Published
Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
...suffers from several limitations. Perhaps most importantly, most Cas9 orthologs are less well characterized...(1, 3). The gRNA can be further modified by incorporation of an RNA hairpin, such as the MS2 hairpin, ...with nuclease-competent Cas9. An RNA hairpin incorporated into the truncated gRNA recruits a transcriptional...target site.
Benefits of truncated gRNAs
Importantly, the use of truncated guides has largely been...