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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

TOP-SECRETS enables Cas9 nucleases to discriminate SNVs outside of PAMs.

Ashley Herring-Nicholas, Stephanie Fisher-Huynh, Eric A Josephs

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Ashley Herring-NicholasDepartment of Nanoscience; The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering; UNC Greensboro; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Stephanie Fisher-HuynhDepartment of Biology; College of Arts and Sciences; UNC Greensboro; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
Eric A JosephsDepartment of Nanoscience; The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering; UNC Greensboro; Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5330-6842

Funding

Complex Mechanisms of Mutation and Mutation Avoidance in Living CellsR35GM133483 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO · PI JOSEPHS, ERIC ALAN · 2019 to 2023
$1.6M
UNC-Greensboro U-RISE: Engage, Sustain, and Prepare Future PhD Biomedical ScientistsT34GM149494 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO · PI MCLEAN, BRYAN STEPHEN, OBARE, SHERINE O. · 2023 to 2024
$534k
A Molecular Grammar for Guide RNAs (gRNAs) with Engineered Secondary StructuresR21EB033595 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO · PI JOSEPHS, ERIC ALAN, MO, YIRONG · 2022 to 2023
$400k
Mechanism and Architecture of EndoMS/NucS Mutation Avoidance in MycobacteriaR21AI146876 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO · PI JOSEPHS, ERIC ALAN · 2019 to 2020
$291k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI146876NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB033595NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133483NIGMS NIH HHS T34 GM149494
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA-guided CRISPR nuclease Cas9 cannot reliably differentiate between single nucleotide variations (SNVs) of targeted DNA sequences determined by their guide RNA (gRNA): they typically exhibit similar nuclease activities at any of those variations, unless the variation occurs with specific sequence contexts known as protospacer adjacent motifs (PAMs). Our approach, "TOP-SECRETS," generates gRNA variants that allow Cas9 ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) to reliably discriminate between healthy and disease-associated SNVs outside of PAMs.

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