that in E. coli cut the CRISPR RNA precursor within the repeats into mature spacer-containing RNA molecules called CRISPR RNA (crRNA), which remained bound...
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Cas9 (redirect from CRISPR/Cas9)
of the guide RNA (gRNA). If the DNA substrate is complementary to the guide RNA, Cas9 cleaves the invading DNA. In this sense, the CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism...
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CRISPR RNA or crRNA is a RNA transcript from the CRISPR locus. CRISPR-Cas (clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats - CRISPR associated...
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gRNAs are a part of the CRISPR-Cas system that serves as an adaptive immune defense that protects the organism from viruses. Here the short gRNAs serve...
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Cas12a (redirect from CRISPR/Cas12a)
(CRISPR-associated protein 12a, previously known as Cpf1) is an RNA-guided endonuclease-exonuclease that forms an essential component of the CRISPR systems...
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genes on the mRNA level. Many bacteria and most archaea have an adaptive immune system which incorporates CRISPR RNA (crRNA) and CRISPR-associated (cas)...
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version of the bacterial CRISPR-Cas9 antiviral defense system. By delivering the Cas9 nuclease complexed with a synthetic guide RNA (gRNA) into a cell, the cell's...
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diseases. Like for CRISPR interference, the CRISPR effector is guided to the target by a complementary guide RNA. However, CRISPR activation systems are...
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In molecular biology, trans-activating CRISPR RNA (tracrRNA) is a small trans-encoded RNA. It was first discovered by Emmanuelle Charpentier in her study...
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palindromic repeats) system for genome editing. The CRISPR/Cas9 system uses a short guide RNA (sgRNA) sequence to direct a Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 nuclease...
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Samuel H. Sternberg, PhD is an American protein–RNA biochemist and an expert on CRISPR–Cas gene editing technology. He is an Associate Professor in the...
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CRISPR-associated transposons or CASTs are mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that have evolved to make use of minimal CRISPR systems for RNA-guided transposition...
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"protospacers"). Upon subsequent invasion, a CRISPR-associated nuclease such as Cas9 attaches to a tracrRNA–crRNA complex, which guides Cas9 to the invading...
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early CRISPR-cas9 agents found that greater than 50% of RNA-guided endonuclease-induced mutations were not occurring on-target. The Cas9 guide RNA (gRNA) recognizes...
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advancement in CRISPR technology, enables precise RNA targeting and manipulation without altering DNA. Unlike DNA-editing Cas9, Cas13a uses a single RNA-guided...
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transfer RNA (tRNA), microRNA (miRNA), small interfering RNA (siRNA), small nucleolar RNA (snoRNAs), Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA), tRNA-derived small RNA (tsRNA)...
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CRISPR-Cas design tools are computer software platforms and bioinformatics tools used to facilitate the design of guide RNAs (gRNAs) for use with the...
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CRISPR-Cas system is blocked before it can develop a response. The procedure starts with the CRISPR locus being transcribed into crRNAs (CRISPR RNA)...
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Cas3 (section CRISPR-mediated adaptive immunity)
enzymes. CRISPR-mediated adaptive immunity requires three stages: sequence acquisition, CRISPR RNA biogenesis, and target interference. CRISPR RNA-guided...
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alterations. The approach utilises the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system, coupled with libraries of single guide RNAs (sgRNAs), which are designed to target every...
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PMID 17387036. Brouns SJ, Jore MM, Lundgren M, et al. (August 2008). "Small CRISPR RNAs guide antiviral defense in prokaryotes". Science. 321 (5891): 960–4....
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Emmanuelle Charpentier (category Non-coding RNA)
synthetic "guide RNA" molecules. Synthetic guide RNA is a chimera of crRNA and tracrRNA; therefore, this discovery demonstrated that the CRISPR-Cas9 technology...
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CRISPR Therapeutics AG is a Swiss–American biotechnology company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. The company does business as CRISPR Therapeutics,...
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February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and...
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RNAs such as microRNAs, siRNAs, piRNAs, snoRNAs, snRNAs, exRNAs, scaRNAs and the long ncRNAs such as Xist and HOTAIR. The number of non-coding RNAs within...
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such as CRISPR may also benefit from using mRNA to induce cells to make the desired Cas protein. Since the 2010s, RNA vaccines and other RNA therapeutics...
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Perturb-seq (category RNA sequencing)
performing single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on pooled genetic perturbation screens. Perturb-seq combines multiplexed CRISPR mediated gene inactivations...
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involve RNA interference from repetitive DNA sequences within archaean genomes that are related to the genes of the viruses. Most archaea have CRISPR–Cas...
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Functional genomics (section CRISPR screens)
observed phenotypes. CRISPR-Cas9 has been used to delete genes in a multiplexed manner in cell-lines. Quantifying the amount of guide-RNAs for each gene before...
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include plasmids, CRISPR and mRNA. The first approved use of lipid nanoparticles as a drug delivery mechanism began in 2018 with the siRNA drug patisiran...
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