Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Crosstalk between CRISPR-Cas9 and the human transcriptome

  • Aaron A. Smargon,
  • Assael A. Madrigal,
  • Brian A. Yee,
  • Kevin D. Dong,
  • Jasmine R. Mueller,
  • Gene W. Yeo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28719-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9 are thought to be mediated by its cognate guide RNA. Here the authors show that Cas9 independently interacts with the human transcriptome, correlating with elevated RNA editing even under guide RNA co-expression.