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The CRISPR-Cas system holds great promise in the treatment of diseases caused by genetic variations. The Cas protein, an RNA-guided programmable nuclease, generates a double-strand break at precise genomic loci. However, the use of the clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas system to distinguish between single-nucleotide variations is challenging. The promiscuity of the guide RNA (gRNA) and its mismatch tolerance make allele-specific targeting an elusive goal. This review presents a meta-analysis of previous studies reporting position-dependent mismatch tolerance within the gRNA. We also examine the conservativity of the seed sequence, a region within the gRNA with stringent sequence dependency, and propose the existence of a subregion within the seed sequence with a higher degree of specificity. In addition, we summarize the reports on high-fidelity Cas nucleases with improved specificity and compare the standard gRNA design methodology to the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-derived protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) approach, an alternative method for allele-specific targeting. The combination of the two methods may be advantageous in designing

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Author

Roy Rabinowitz; Daniel Offen

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)