CRISPR/Cas system: recent advances and future prospects for genome editing

H Manghwar, K Lindsey, X Zhang, S Jin - Trends in plant science, 2019 - cell.com
Genome editing (GE) has revolutionized biological research through the new ability to
precisely edit the genomes of living organisms. In recent years, various GE tools have been …

The biology of CRISPR-Cas: backward and forward

F Hille, H Richter, SP Wong, M Bratovič, S Ressel… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
In bacteria and archaea, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
(CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins constitute an adaptive immune system …

The emerging and uncultivated potential of CRISPR technology in plant science

Y Zhang, AA Malzahn, S Sretenovic, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2019 - nature.com
The application of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) for
genetic manipulation has revolutionized life science over the past few years. CRISPR was …

Diversity, classification and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

EV Koonin, KS Makarova, F Zhang - Current opinion in microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Two classes of CRISPR-Cas systems differ by the architectures of effector
modules.•Effectors of Class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems are large, multidomain proteins.•Effector …

Origins and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

EV Koonin, KS Makarova - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
CRISPR-Cas, the bacterial and archaeal adaptive immunity systems, encompass a complex
machinery that integrates fragments of foreign nucleic acids, mostly from mobile genetic …

Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems

S Shmakov, A Smargon, D Scott, D Cox… - Nature reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems are characterized by effector modules that consist of a single
multidomain protein, such as Cas9 or Cpf1. We designed a computational pipeline for the …

Application of different types of CRISPR/Cas-based systems in bacteria

Z Liu, H Dong, Y Cui, L Cong, D Zhang - Microbial cell factories, 2020 - Springer
As important genome editing tools, CRISPR/Cas systems, especially those based on type II
Cas9 and type V Cas12a, are widely used in genetic and metabolic engineering of bacteria …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-Cas12a: Functional overview and applications

B Paul, G Montoya - Biomedical journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Prokaryotes have developed an adaptive immune system called Clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) to combat attacks by foreign mobile genetic …

Mechanistic Insights into the cis-and trans-Acting DNase Activities of Cas12a

DC Swarts, M Jinek - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary CRISPR-Cas12a (Cpf1) is an RNA-guided DNA-cutting nuclease that has been
repurposed for genome editing. Upon target DNA binding, Cas12a cleaves both the target …

Engineering of CRISPR-Cas12b for human genome editing

J Strecker, S Jones, B Koopal, J Schmid-Burgk… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The type-V CRISPR effector Cas12b (formerly known as C2c1) has been challenging to
develop for genome editing in human cells, at least in part due to the high temperature …