Cas9 Mechanism | CRISPR/Cas9 - Tufts University

Apr 13, 2015  · The Cas9 protein remains inactive in the absence of guide RNA (Jinek et al. 2014).In engineered CRISPR systems, guide RNA is comprised of a single strand of RNA that forms a T-shape comprised of one tetraloop and two or three stem loops (Figure 2) (Jinek et al. 2012; Nishimasu et al. 2014).The guide RNA is engineered to have a 5′ end that is …