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SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome
Candida albicans is a human fungal pathogen capable of causing life-threatening infections. The ability to edit the C. albicans genome using CRISPR/Cas9 is an important tool investigators can leverage in their search for novel therapeutic targets. However, wild-type Cas9 requires an NGG protospacer...
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American Society for Microbiology
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8265644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34011687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00303-21 |
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description | Candida albicans is a human fungal pathogen capable of causing life-threatening infections. The ability to edit the C. albicans genome using CRISPR/Cas9 is an important tool investigators can leverage in their search for novel therapeutic targets. However, wild-type Cas9 requires an NGG protospacer adjacent motif (PAM), leaving many AT-rich regions of DNA inaccessible. A recently described near-PAMless CRISPR system that utilizes the SpRY Cas9 variant can target non-NGG PAM sequences. Using this system as a model, we developed C. albicans CRISPR/SpRY. We tested our system by mutating C. albicans ADE2 and show that CRISPR/SpRY can utilize non-NGG PAM sequences in C. albicans. Our CRISPR/SpRY system will allow researchers to efficiently modify C. albicans DNA that lacks NGG PAM sequences. IMPORTANCE Genetic modification of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans allows us to better understand how fungi differ from humans at the molecular level and play essential roles in the development of therapeutics. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing systems can be used to introduce site-specific mutations to C. albicans. However, wild-type Cas9 is limited by the requirement of an NGG PAM site. CRISPR/SpRY targets a variety of different PAM sequences. We modified the C. albicans CRISPR/Cas9 system using the CRISPR/SpRY as a guide. We tested CRISPR/SpRY on C. albicans ADE2 and show that our SpRY system can facilitate genome editing independent of an NGG PAM sequence, thus allowing the investigator to target AT-rich sequences. Our system will potentially enable mutation of the 125 C. albicans genes which have been previously untargetable with CRISPR/Cas9. Additionally, our system will allow for precise targeting of many genomic locations that lack NGG PAM sites. |
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spelling | pubmed-82656442021-07-23 SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome Evans, Ben A. Bernstein, Douglas A. mSphere Observation Candida albicans is a human fungal pathogen capable of causing life-threatening infections. The ability to edit the C. albicans genome using CRISPR/Cas9 is an important tool investigators can leverage in their search for novel therapeutic targets. However, wild-type Cas9 requires an NGG protospacer adjacent motif (PAM), leaving many AT-rich regions of DNA inaccessible. A recently described near-PAMless CRISPR system that utilizes the SpRY Cas9 variant can target non-NGG PAM sequences. Using this system as a model, we developed C. albicans CRISPR/SpRY. We tested our system by mutating C. albicans ADE2 and show that CRISPR/SpRY can utilize non-NGG PAM sequences in C. albicans. Our CRISPR/SpRY system will allow researchers to efficiently modify C. albicans DNA that lacks NGG PAM sequences. IMPORTANCE Genetic modification of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans allows us to better understand how fungi differ from humans at the molecular level and play essential roles in the development of therapeutics. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing systems can be used to introduce site-specific mutations to C. albicans. However, wild-type Cas9 is limited by the requirement of an NGG PAM site. CRISPR/SpRY targets a variety of different PAM sequences. We modified the C. albicans CRISPR/Cas9 system using the CRISPR/SpRY as a guide. We tested CRISPR/SpRY on C. albicans ADE2 and show that our SpRY system can facilitate genome editing independent of an NGG PAM sequence, thus allowing the investigator to target AT-rich sequences. Our system will potentially enable mutation of the 125 C. albicans genes which have been previously untargetable with CRISPR/Cas9. Additionally, our system will allow for precise targeting of many genomic locations that lack NGG PAM sites. American Society for Microbiology 2021-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8265644/ /pubmed/34011687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00303-21 Text en Copyright © 2021 Evans and Bernstein. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Observation Evans, Ben A. Bernstein, Douglas A. SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome |
title | SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome |
title_full | SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome |
title_fullStr | SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome |
title_full_unstemmed | SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome |
title_short | SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome |
title_sort | spry cas9 can utilize a variety of protospacer adjacent motif site sequences to edit the candida albicans genome |
topic | Observation |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8265644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34011687 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00303-21 |
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