| Literature DB >> 23478298 |
Philippe Horvath1, Rodolphe Barrangou.
Abstract
Two recent papers in Science illustrate how the prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immune system machinery, which typically targets invasive genetic elements such as viruses and plasmids, can be converted into a sophisticated molecular tool for next-generation human genome editing. The versatile Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease can be readily reprogrammed using customizable small RNAs for sequence-specific single- or double-stranded DNA cleavage.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 23478298 PMCID: PMC3674385 DOI: 10.1038/cr.2013.39
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Res ISSN: 1001-0602 Impact factor: 25.617