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Degron-modified Cas12a enhances single-cell CRISPR screening

Snetkova, V.; Galan, C.; Lopez, R.; Rios, A. R.; Kudo, T.; Dorighi, K.; Warming, S.; Haley, B. J.

2024-12-08 molecular biology
10.1101/2024.12.08.627374 bioRxiv
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Single-cell CRISPR (Perturb-seq) screens have primarily relied on Cas9 whereas Cas12a, despite its unique effectiveness for multiplex guide expression, remains underexplored. This may be due to Cas12as guide RNA array (pre-crRNA) self-processing activity and the subsequent challenges associated with pre-crRNA sequence recovery. By developing modified pre-crRNA expression vectors and a degron-based Cas12a system, we overcome the self-processing constraint, allowing for accurate detection of pre-crRNAs at the single-cell level, thus greatly expanding possibilities for future Perturb-seq efforts.

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