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ArticleACS omega2024

Probing Electrostatic Interactions in DNA-Bound CRISPR/Cas9 Complexes by Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Seyedeh Hoda Fatemi Abhari, Rosa Di Felice

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Article in ACS omega, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Seyedeh Hoda Fatemi AbhariDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0815-1801
Rosa Di FeliceDepartments of Physics and Astronomy and Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7772-6550

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Engineered protein mutations may be exploited to tune molecular interactions in the cellular environment. Here, we have explored the structural consequences of different Cas9 mutations in genome-editing CRISPR/Cas9 systems by means of Molecular Dynamics simulations. We have characterized mutation-induced structural changes and their implications for changes in protein-DNA, DNA-RNA, and DNA-DNA interactions. We present the analysis of multiple trajectories over the cumulative time scale of 7.7 μs, focusing on triple mutations that have been associated with enhancement of genome editing specificity, as well as control mutations. We find that the structural changes induced by the protein mutations are consistent with decreasing the strength of the interaction between Cas9 and the nontarget DNA strand. We discuss the implications of this finding for genome editing specificity.

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PMID39554421
PMCPMC11561601

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