Discovery of diverse CRISPR-Cas systems and expansion of the genome engineering toolbox

EV Koonin, JS Gootenberg, OO Abudayyeh - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
CRISPR systems mediate adaptive immunity in bacteria and archaea through diverse
effector mechanisms and have been repurposed for versatile applications in therapeutics …

Applications of CRISPR/Cas13-based RNA editing in plants

NR Kavuri, M Ramasamy, Y Qi, K Mandadi - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-
associated (Cas) system is widely used as a genome-editing tool in various organisms …

High-fidelity Cas13 variants for targeted RNA degradation with minimal collateral effects

H Tong, J Huang, Q Xiao, B He, X Dong, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas13 systems have recently been used for targeted RNA degradation in various
organisms. However, collateral degradation of bystander RNAs has limited their in vivo …

CRISPR/Cas13 effectors have differing extents of off-target effects that limit their utility in eukaryotic cells

Y Ai, D Liang, JE Wilusz - Nucleic Acids Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR/Cas13 effectors have garnered increasing attention as easily customizable tools for
detecting and depleting RNAs of interest. Near perfect complementarity between a target …

Targeted gene silencing in the nervous system with CRISPR-Cas13

JE Powell, CKW Lim, R Krishnan, TX McCallister… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Cas13 nucleases are a class of programmable RNA-targeting CRISPR effector proteins that
are capable of silencing target gene expression in mammalian cells. Here, we demonstrate …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-Cas13d induces efficient mRNA knockdown in animal embryos

G Kushawah, L Hernandez-Huertas, JAN Del Prado… - Developmental Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Early embryonic development is driven exclusively by maternal gene products deposited
into the oocyte. Although critical in establishing early developmental programs, maternal …

A versatile toolkit for CRISPR-Cas13-based RNA manipulation in Drosophila

N Huynh, N Depner, R Larson, K King-Jones - Genome Biology, 2020 - Springer
Advances in CRISPR technology have immensely improved our ability to manipulate nucleic
acids, and the recent discovery of the RNA-targeting endonuclease Cas13 adds even further …

Precise genome engineering in Drosophila using prime editing

JA Bosch, G Birchak… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Precise genome editing is a valuable tool to study gene function in model organisms. Prime
editing, a precise editing system developed in mammalian cells, does not require double …

[HTML][HTML] The double life of CRISPR–Cas13

JF Bot, J van der Oost, N Geijsen - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•CRISPR–Cas13 is potentially capable of collateral RNA cleavage in eukaryotic
cells.•Target RNA levels, cell size, and cell-type-specific properties may influence the …

Single-base tiled screen unveils design principles of PspCas13b for potent and off-target-free RNA silencing

W Hu, A Kumar, SF Ahmed, S Qi, DKG Ma… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
The development of precise RNA-editing tools is essential for the advancement of RNA
therapeutics. CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) …