Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs
Type
Blog Post
Published
June 2, 2015, 6:06 p.m.
...polycistronic glycine tRNA-gRNA genes (PTGs) in the forms tRNA-gRNA and tRNA-gRNA-tRNA, with short 5’ spacer...U)tail in tRNA-gRNA constructs or a 1-4 base tail from the second tRNA in the tRNA-gRNA-tRNA constructs...by the tRNA processing machinery present in almost every living organism. Precursor, or pre-tRNAs are cleaved...conserved cellular machinery to process gRNAs.
Hijacking tRNA processing to make gRNAs
In a recently published...eukaryotes (E in bacteria), and only a few elements of tRNAs are necessary for recognition and cleavage. This... compromising cleavage efficiency. In addition, tRNAs contain internal transcriptional elements that enhance...increasing the levels of gRNA expression. Since tRNAs are among the most abundant molecules in a cell,...