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ArticleScience advances2018

Minimal PAM specificity of a highly similar SpCas9 ortholog.

Pranam Chatterjee, Noah Jakimo, Joseph M Jacobson

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Article in Science advances, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 134 papers.

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134 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. CRISPR-based functional genomics tools in vertebrate models.Experimental & molecular medicine · 2025
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  14. Recent advances in therapeutic gene-editing technologies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  15. CRISPR-Cas applications in agriculture and plant research.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2025
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  16. Current trends in gene therapy to treat inherited disorders of the brain.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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  20. Enhanced Genome Editing Activity with Novel Chimeric ScCas9 Variants in Rice.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Pranam ChatterjeeCenter for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3957-8478
Noah JakimoCenter for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Joseph M JacobsonCenter for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA-guided DNA endonucleases of the CRISPR-Cas system are widely used for genome engineering and thus have numerous applications in a wide variety of fields. CRISPR endonucleases, however, require a specific protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) flanking the target site, thus constraining their targetable sequence space. In this study, we demonstrate the natural PAM plasticity of a highly similar, yet previously uncharacterized, Cas9 from

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingAmino Acid SequenceComputational BiologyCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Genetic EngineeringGenome, HumanHEK293 CellsHumansSequence HomologyStreptococcusSubstrate SpecificityCRISPR-Associated Protein 9

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PMID30397647
PMCPMC6200363

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