Structural biology of CRISPR–Cas immunity and genome editing enzymes

JY Wang, P Pausch, JA Doudna - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide resistance against foreign mobile genetic elements and have
a wide range of genome editing and biotechnological applications. In this Review, we …

Targeting miRNA by CRISPR/Cas in cancer: advantages and challenges

BM Hussen, MF Rasul, SR Abdullah, HJ Hidayat… - Military Medical …, 2023 - Springer
Clustered regulatory interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) has changed
biomedical research and provided entirely new models to analyze every aspect of …

Versatile detection with CRISPR/Cas system from applications to challenges

H Wu, X Chen, M Zhang, X Wang, Y Chen… - TrAC Trends in …, 2021 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas system is now playing an important role in biosensing applications, especially
when the trans cleavage activity of several Cas effectors is discovered. Recently …

Cascade CRISPR/cas enables amplification-free microRNA sensing with fM-sensitivity and single-base-specificity

Y Sha, R Huang, M Huang, H Yue, Y Shan… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Existing CRISPR/cas-based biosensors usually improve sensitivity by target amplification,
which is time-consuming and susceptible to impurities in complex biofluid. Herein, this is the …

Molecular reporters for CRISPR/Cas: From design principles to engineering for bioanalytical and diagnostic applications

M Sohail, L Qin, S Li, Y Chen, MH Zaman… - TrAC Trends in …, 2022 - Elsevier
CRISPR/Cas machinery has revolutionized the analytical platform for the precise detection
of diverse analytes. Specific target recognition and robust signal transduction are crucial …

Recognition of DNA target formulations by CRISPR-Cas12a using a dsDNA reporter

CW Smith, MJ Kachwala, N Nandu… - ACS synthetic biology, 2021 - ACS Publications
CRISPR-Cas12a is a powerful platform for DNA-based diagnostics. The detection scheme
relies on unselective shredding of a fluorescent ssDNA reporter upon target DNA …

How genome editing changed the world of large animal research

K Fischer, A Schnieke - Frontiers in Genome Editing, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The first genetically modified large animals were developed in 1985 by microinjection to
increase the growth of agricultural livestock such as pigs. Since then, it has been a difficult …

Applications of anti-CRISPR proteins in genome editing and biotechnology

C Kraus, EJ Sontheimer - Journal of Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In the ten years since the discovery of the first anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins, the number of
validated Acrs has expanded rapidly, as has our understanding of the diverse mechanisms …

Detection of rare variant alleles using the AsCas12a double-stranded DNA trans-cleavage activity

HL Yu, Y Cao, X Lu, IM Hsing - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2021 - Elsevier
The sensitive and accurate detection of rare mutations has profound clinical implications;
however, current methods require expensive instrumentation and are laborious and time …

Probing CRISPR-Cas12a nuclease activity using double-stranded DNA-templated fluorescent substrates

CW Smith, N Nandu, MJ Kachwala, YS Chen… - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
The CRISPR-Cas12a nuclease shreds short single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) substrates
indiscriminately through trans-cleavage upon activation with a specific target DNA. This …