| Literature DB >> 30598555 |
Royce A Wilkinson1, Coleman Martin1, Artem A Nemudryi1, Blake Wiedenheft2.
Abstract
Cas9 is an endonuclease that can be programed to autonomously deliver diverse effectors to specified genetic addresses. High-resolution structures of this protein and its associated CRISPR RNA guide explain the molecular mechanisms of CRISPR-RNA-guided DNA recognition and provide a molecular blueprint that has facilitated structure-guided functional remodeling. Here we retrace events that led from early efforts to understand the central role of Cas9 in CRISPR-mediated adaptive immunity to contemporary efforts aimed at developing and deploying this enzyme for programmable genetic editing.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30598555 PMCID: PMC7703833 DOI: 10.1038/s41594-018-0173-y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Struct Mol Biol ISSN: 1545-9985 Impact factor: 15.369