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High-Throughput Screens of PAM-Flexible Cas9 Variants for Gene Knockout and Transcriptional Modulation.
Cell reports - 3 Mar 2020
Legut Mateusz, Daniloski Zharko, Xue Xinhe, McKenzie Dayna, Guo Xinyi, Wessels Hans-Hermann, Sanjana Neville E
Abstract excerpt
A key limitation of the widely used CRISPR enzyme S. pyogenes Cas9 is the strict requirement of an NGG protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) at the target site. This constraint can be limiting for genome editing applications that require precise Cas9 positioning. Recently, two Cas9 variants with a relaxed PAM requirement (NG) have been developed (xCas9 and Cas9-NG), but their activity has been measured at only a small...
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