Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease with expanded targeting space

Expanding the targeting space of Cas9 CRISPR-Cas9 associates with a guide RNA to target and cleave a specific DNA site next to a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM). Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9), the one most often used for genome editing, only recognizes the NGG sequence (where N is any nucleobase) as the PAM, which restricts regions in the genome that can be targeted. To address this limitation, Nishimasu et al. created a SpCas9 variant...