Compacting Cas for Precise Gene Editing
August 16, 2022 | Terry Sharrer
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MIT neuroscientists expand CRISPR toolkit with new, compact Cas7-11 enzyme
“It was already known that Cas7-11 is a combination of five different enzymes, so the researchers used cryo-electron microscopy to study the structure of this enzyme and its effector complex to understand how it folds together into one functioning unit. “The really fascinating thing about Cas7-11, from a fundamental biology perspective, is that it should be all these separate pieces that come together, but instead you have a fusion into one gene, . . . .” MORE
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