Dynamics and thermostability of HNH nuclease in divergent Cas9 species

C Pindi, S Sinha, H Belato, C Norbrun, J Luo… - Biophysical …, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful technology that has rapidly transformed genome editing. The
Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes (SpCas9) is susceptible to degradation and unsuitable …

Structural and dynamic insights into the HNH nuclease of divergent Cas9 species

HB Belato, MD Alexandra, L Nierzwicki… - Journal of structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
CRISPR-Cas9 is a widely used biochemical tool with applications in molecular biology and
precision medicine. The RNA-guided Cas9 protein uses its HNH endonuclease domain to …

Assessing structure and dynamics of AlphaFold2 prediction of GeoCas9

PR Arantes, L Nierzwicki, H Belato, MD Alexandra… - Biophysical …, 2022 - cell.com
The Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) protein is the centerpiece of a transformative
gene editing technology, widely used in molecular biology and precision medicine …

Allosteric motions of the CRISPR–Cas9 HNH nuclease probed by NMR and molecular dynamics

KW East, JC Newton, UN Morzan… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
CRISPR–Cas9 is a widely employed genome-editing tool with functionality reliant on the
ability of the Cas9 endonuclease to introduce site-specific breaks in double-stranded DNA …

Disruption of electrostatic contacts in the HNH nuclease from a thermophilic Cas9 rewires allosteric motions and enhances high-temperature DNA cleavage

HB Belato, C Norbrun, J Luo, C Pindi… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Allosteric signaling within multidomain proteins is a driver of communication between
spatially distant functional sites. Understanding the mechanism of allosteric coupling in large …

Enhanced Proofreading Governs CRISPR-Cas9 Targeting Accuracy

JS Chen, YS Dagdas, BP Kleinstiver, MM Welch… - Biophysical …, 2018 - cell.com
The RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease from Streptococcus pyogenes (SpCas9) has been
widely repurposed for genome editing. DNA cleavage of Cas9 is controlled by the …

Principles of target DNA cleavage and the role of Mg2+ in the catalysis of CRISPR–Cas9

Ł Nierzwicki, KW East, JM Binz, RV Hsu, M Ahsan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
At the core of the CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing technology, the endonuclease Cas9
introduces site-specific breaks in DNA. However, precise mechanistic information to …

1H, 13C, 15N backbone and side chain resonance assignment of the HNH nuclease from Streptococcus pyogenes CRISPR-Cas9

HB Belato, KW East, GP Lisi - Biomolecular NMR assignments, 2019 - Springer
HNH is one of two endonuclease domains of the clustered regularly interspaced short
palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein Cas9 that perform site-specific cleavage …

A conformational checkpoint between DNA binding and cleavage by CRISPR-Cas9

YS Dagdas, JS Chen, SH Sternberg, JA Doudna… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The Cas9 endonuclease is widely used for genome engineering applications by
programming its single-guide RNA, and ongoing work is aimed at improving the accuracy …

Structural insights into DNA cleavage activation of CRISPR-Cas9 system

C Huai, G Li, R Yao, Y Zhang, M Cao, L Kong… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas9 technology has been widely used for genome engineering. Its RNA-guided
endonuclease Cas9 binds specifically to target DNA and then cleaves the two DNA strands …