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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 71, Issue 5, Pages 791-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2018.07.013
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- Merck fellowship
- Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellowship
- NIH Director's Pioneer Award [1DP1GM128184-01]
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All immune systems use precise target recognition to interrogate foreign invaders. During CRISPR-Cas immunity, prokaryotes capture short spacer sequences from infecting viruses and insert them into the CRISPR array. Transcription and processing of the CRISPR locus generate small RNAs containing the spacer and repeat sequences that guide Cas nucleases to cleave a complementary protospacer in the invading nucleic acids. In most CRISPR systems, sequences flanking the protospacer drastically affect cleavage. Here, we investigated the target requirements of the recently discovered RNA-targeting type VI-A CRISPR-Cas system in its natural host, Listeria seeligeri. We discovered that target RNAs with extended complementarity between the protospacer flanking sequence and the repeat sequence of the guide RNA are not cleaved by the type VI-A nuclease Cas13, neither in vivo nor in vitro. These findings establish fundamental rules for the design of Cas13-based technologies and provide a mechanism for preventing self-targeting in type VI-A systems.
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