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SUBMITTER: Zhong G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5577360 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhong Guocai G Wang Haimin H Li Yujun Y Tran Mai H MH Farzan Michael M
Nature chemical biology 20170619 8
Cpf1 is a CRISPR effector protein that has greater specificity than Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) in genome-editing applications. Here we show that Lachnospiraceae bacterium (Lb) and Acidaminococus sp. (As) Cpf1 orthologs have RNase activities that can excise multiple CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) from a single RNA polymerase II-driven RNA transcript expressed in mammalian cells. This property simplifies modification of multiple genomic targets and can be used to increase the efficiency of Cpf1-me ...[more]