The next generation of CRISPR–Cas technologies and applications

A Pickar-Oliver, CA Gersbach - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
The prokaryote-derived CRISPR–Cas genome editing systems have transformed our ability
to manipulate, detect, image and annotate specific DNA and RNA sequences in living cells …

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 …

Improved base excision repair inhibition and bacteriophage Mu Gam protein yields C: G-to-T: A base editors with higher efficiency and product purity

AC Komor, KT Zhao, MS Packer, NM Gaudelli… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
We recently developed base editing, the programmable conversion of target C: G base pairs
to T: A without inducing double-stranded DNA breaks (DSBs) or requiring homology …

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 …

Programmable editing of a target base in genomic DNA without double-stranded DNA cleavage

AC Komor, YB Kim, MS Packer, JA Zuris, DR Liu - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Current genome-editing technologies introduce double-stranded (ds) DNA breaks at a target
locus as the first step to gene correction,. Although most genetic diseases arise from point …

The CRISPR-associated DNA-cleaving enzyme Cpf1 also processes precursor CRISPR RNA

I Fonfara, H Richter, M Bratovič, A Le Rhun… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems that provide defence against mobile genetic elements in bacteria and
archaea have evolved a variety of mechanisms to target and cleave RNA or DNA. The well …

[HTML][HTML] Biology and applications of CRISPR systems: harnessing nature's toolbox for genome engineering

AV Wright, JK Nuñez, JA Doudna - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Bacteria and archaea possess a range of defense mechanisms to combat plasmids and viral
infections. Unique among these are the CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short …

Diverse evolutionary roots and mechanistic variations of the CRISPR-Cas systems

P Mohanraju, KS Makarova, B Zetsche, F Zhang… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Prokaryotes have evolved multiple systems to combat invaders such as
viruses and plasmids. Examples of such defense systems include receptor masking …

CRISPR/cas systems redefine nucleic acid detection: principles and methods

M Wang, R Zhang, J Li - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2020 - Elsevier
Methods that enable rapid, sensitive and specific analyses of nucleic acid sequences have
positive effects on precise disease diagnostics and effective clinical treatments by providing …

A CRISPR–Cas9-triggered strand displacement amplification method for ultrasensitive DNA detection

W Zhou, L Hu, L Ying, Z Zhao, PK Chu, XF Yu - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Although polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is the most widely used method for DNA
amplification, the requirement of thermocycling limits its non-laboratory applications …