Dynamic interplay between target search and recognition for the Cascade surveillance complex of type I-E CRISPR-Cas systems
P. Aldag, M. Rutkauskas, J. Madariaga-Marcos, I. Songailiene, T. Sinkunas, F. E. Kemmerich, D. J. Kauert, V. Siksnys, R. Seidel
This study investigates how the Type I-E CRISPR-Cas Cascade complex searches and recognizes DNA targets, showing that recognition probabilities are low and increased by DNA supercoiling and limited 1D diffusion.
bioRxiv · Dec 18, 2022Biophysics