Nature Communications (May 2020)

A Cas9 with PAM recognition for adenine dinucleotides

  • Pranam Chatterjee,
  • Jooyoung Lee,
  • Lisa Nip,
  • Sabrina R. T. Koseki,
  • Emma Tysinger,
  • Erik J. Sontheimer,
  • Joseph M. Jacobson,
  • Noah Jakimo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16117-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) requirements limit the target range of CRISPR endonucleases. Here, the authors graft the 5$$^{\prime}$$ ′ -NAAN-3$$^{\prime}$$ ′ PAM-interacting domain of SmacCas9 onto SpyCas9 to create adenine dinucleotide targeting chimeras.