C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector
Omar O Abudayyeh, Jonathan S Gootenberg, Silvana Konermann, Julia Joung, Ian M Slaymaker, David BT Cox, Sergey Shmakov, Kira S Makarova, Ekaterina Semenova, Leonid Minakhin, Konstantin Severinov, Aviv Regev, Eric S Lander, Eugene V Koonin, Feng Zhang
This study characterizes C2c2, a CRISPR-Cas effector that uses an RNA guide to target and cleave RNA, showing its potential as a programmable RNA-targeting tool.
Science · Aug 5, 2016Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology