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Mismatch Intolerance of 5'-Truncated sgRNAs in CRISPR/Cas9 Enables Efficient Microbial Single-Base Genome Editing.

ABSTRACT: The CRISPR/Cas9 system has recently emerged as a useful gene-specific editing tool. However, this approach occasionally results in the digestion of both the DNA target and similar DNA sequences due to mismatch tolerance, which remains a significant drawback of current genome editing technologies. However, our study determined that even single-base mismatches between the target DNA and 5'-truncated sgRNAs inhibited target recognition. These results suggest that a 5'-truncated sgRNA/Cas9 complex could be used to negatively select single-base-edited targets in microbial genomes. Moreover, we demonstrated that the 5'-truncated sgRNA method can be used for simple and effective single-base editing, as it enables the modification of individual bases in the DNA target, near and far from the 5' end of truncated sgRNAs. Further, 5'-truncated sgRNAs also allowed for efficient single-base editing when using an engineered Cas9 nuclease with an expanded protospacer adjacent motif (PAM; 5'-NG), which may enable whole-genome single-base editing.

SUBMITTER: Lee HJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8235755 | biostudies-literature |

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