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Masad J. Damha

McGill University

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:CRISPR screen· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:mechanistic / dynamical model· 1 Research Focus:protein folding & dynamics· 1

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A guide RNA repeat checkpoint steers CRISPR-Cas9 catalysis

Ramadevi Chilamkurthy, Sruthi Sudhakar, Adrian A. Pater, Michael S. Bosmeny, Francis Stabile, Adam Katolik, S. Harikrishna, Rolf Turk, Masad J. Damha, Sabrina Leslie, Sergey Korolev, P.I. Pradeepkumar, Keith T. Gagnon

The paper identifies a guide RNA repeat checkpoint that regulates CRISPR-Cas9 catalysis and proposes guide repeat-truncated sgRNAs to improve editing specificity.

bioRxiv · Dec 2, 2025 · PreprintBiochemistry

A conserved homo-dimerization interface in human IFIT1 provides insights into IFIT interactome assembly

Yazan M. Abbas, Saúl Martínez-Montero, Regina Cencic, Jerry Pelletier, Peter D. Pawelek, Masad J. Damha, Bhushan Nagar

This study investigates the dimerization interface of wild-type IFIT1 and its role in RNA binding and antiviral function.

bioRxiv · Jun 21, 2017 · PreprintBiochemistry