Structural biology of CRISPR–Cas immunity and genome editing enzymes

JY Wang, P Pausch, JA Doudna - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide resistance against foreign mobile genetic elements and have
a wide range of genome editing and biotechnological applications. In this Review, we …

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 …

Structural basis for mismatch surveillance by CRISPR–Cas9

JPK Bravo, MS Liu, GN Hibshman, TL Dangerfield… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas9 as a programmable genome editing tool is hindered by off-target DNA
cleavage,,–, and the underlying mechanisms by which Cas9 recognizes mismatches are …

Diverse virus-encoded CRISPR-Cas systems include streamlined genome editors

B Al-Shayeb, P Skopintsev, KM Soczek, EC Stahl, Z Li… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas systems are host-encoded pathways that protect microbes from viral infection
using an adaptive RNA-guided mechanism. Using genome-resolved metagenomics, we find …

TnpB structure reveals minimal functional core of Cas12 nuclease family

G Sasnauskas, G Tamulaitiene, G Druteika, A Carabias… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The widespread TnpB proteins of IS200/IS605 transposon family have recently emerged as
the smallest RNA-guided nucleases capable of targeted genome editing in eukaryotic cells …

Cas12n nucleases, early evolutionary intermediates of type V CRISPR, comprise a distinct family of miniature genome editors

W Chen, J Ma, Z Wu, Z Wang, H Zhang, W Fu, D Pan… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Type V CRISPR-associated systems (Cas) 12 family nucleases are considered to have
evolved from transposon-associated TnpB, and several of these nucleases have been …

Targeting miRNA by CRISPR/Cas in cancer: advantages and challenges

BM Hussen, MF Rasul, SR Abdullah, HJ Hidayat… - Military Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) has changed
biomedical research and provided entirely new models to analyze every aspect of …

Structure and engineering of miniature Acidibacillus sulfuroxidans Cas12f1

Z Wu, D Liu, D Pan, H Yu, J Shi, J Ma, W Fu, Z Wang… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
The miniature CRISPR-Cas12f nucleases enable efficient delivery via cargo-size-limited
vehicles, thereby showing promise for in vivo therapeutic applications. Acidibacillus …

Genome editing in plants using the compact editor CasΦ

Z Li, Z Zhong, Z Wu, P Pausch… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated proteins
(CRISPR-Cas) systems have been developed as important tools for plant genome …

RNA targeting unleashes indiscriminate nuclease activity of CRISPR–Cas12a2

JPK Bravo, T Hallmark, B Naegle, CL Beisel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cas12a2 is a CRISPR-associated nuclease that performs RNA-guided, sequence-
nonspecific degradation of single-stranded RNA, single-stranded DNA and double-stranded …