CRISPR/Cas9 Protein in Action (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

CRISPR/Cas9 Protein in Action

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Researchers simulated the behavior of the Cas9 protein from Streptococcus pyogenes (spCas9), combined with a single guide RNA (sgRNA), on a double strand DNA (dsDNA) substrate, to understand how the protein edits the genome.

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Jin Liu and Zhicheng Zuo, UNT

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