Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

A CRISPR-Cas12a-derived biosensing platform for the highly sensitive detection of diverse small molecules

  • Mindong Liang,
  • Zilong Li,
  • Weishan Wang,
  • Jiakun Liu,
  • Leshi Liu,
  • Guoliang Zhu,
  • Loganathan Karthik,
  • Man Wang,
  • Ke-Feng Wang,
  • Zhong Wang,
  • Jing Yu,
  • Yuting Shuai,
  • Jiaming Yu,
  • Lu Zhang,
  • Zhiheng Yang,
  • Chuan Li,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Tong Shi,
  • Liming Zhou,
  • Feng Xie,
  • Huanqin Dai,
  • Xueting Liu,
  • Jingyu Zhang,
  • Guang Liu,
  • Ying Zhuo,
  • Buchang Zhang,
  • Chenli Liu,
  • Shanshan Li,
  • Xuekui Xia,
  • Yaojun Tong,
  • Yanwen Liu,
  • Gil Alterovitz,
  • Gao-Yi Tan,
  • Li-Xin Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11648-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Bacterial allosteric transcription factors can sense and respond to a variety of small molecules. Here the authors present CaT-SMelor which uses Cas12a and allosteric transcription factors to detect small molecules in the nanomolar range.