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ReviewVirus research2021

CRISPR systems: Novel approaches for detection and combating COVID-19.

Fatemeh Safari, Mohammad Afarid, Banafsheh Rastegari, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Mazyar Barekati-Mowahed, Abbas Behzad-Behbahani

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Review in Virus research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. A Critical Review of the CRISPR-Cas Technology in the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2025
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  5. Development of practical techniques for simultaneous detection and distinction of current and emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2023
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  10. COVID-19 diagnostics: Molecular biology to nanomaterials.Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry · 2023
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  14. Therapeutic potentials of CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology in human viral infections.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Fatemeh SafariDiagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mohammad AfaridShooshtari Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Banafsheh RastegariDiagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Afshin Borhani-HaghighiClinical Neurology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mazyar Barekati-MowahedDepartment of Physiology & Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, OH, USA.
Abbas Behzad-BehbahaniDiagnostic Laboratory Sciences and Technology Research Center, School of Paramedical Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: Behzadba@sums.ac.ir.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type V and VI CRISPR enzymes are RNA-guided, DNA and RNA-targeting effectors that allow specific gene knockdown. Cas12 and Cas13 are CRISPR proteins that are efficient agents for diagnosis and combating single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses. The programmability of these proteins paves the way for the detection and degradation of RNA viruses by targeting RNAs complementary to its CRISPR RNA (crRNA). Approximately two-thirds of viruses causing diseases contain ssRNA genomes. The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has infected more than 88 million people worldwide with near 2 million deaths since December 2019. Thus, accurate and rapid diagnostic and therapeutic tools are essential for early detection and treatment of this widespread infectious disease. For us, the CRISPR based platforms seem to be a plausible new approach for an accurate detection and treatment of SARS-CoV-2. In this review, we talk about Cas12 and Cas13 CRISPR systems and their applications in diagnosis and treatment of RNA virus mediated diseases. In continue, the SARS-CoV-2 pathogenicity, and its conventional diagnostics and antivirals will be discussed. Moreover, we highlight novel CRISPR based diagnostic platforms and therapies for COVID-19. We also discuss the challenges of diagnostic CRISPR based platforms as well as clarifying the proposed solution for high efficient selective in vivo delivery of CRISPR components into SARS-CoV-2-infected cells.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentCRISPR-Cas SystemsAntiviral AgentsClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCOVID-19COVID-19 Nucleic Acid TestingCRISPR-Associated ProteinsHumansRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, ViralSARS-CoV-2Antiviral AgentsCRISPR-Associated ProteinsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, ViralABACASCRISPR-Cas systemDETECTRDiagnosisPAC-MANSARS-CoV-2SHERLOCKSingle-stranded RNA viruses

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PMID33428981
PMCPMC7832022

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