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"Single molecule visualization of a powerful genetic engineering tool ""Cas9"" in action"
Singh, Dingvijay
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/75877
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- Title
- "Single molecule visualization of a powerful genetic engineering tool ""Cas9"" in action"
- Author(s)
- Singh, Dingvijay
- Issue Date
- 2015-04
- Keyword(s)
- Biophysics
- Biophysics and Computational Biology
- Abstract
- Cas9 is a tiny molecular machine that has paved way for a new-era of biotech revolution. The protein-Cas9, is an endonuclease, meaning that it can cleave DNA. The ability to easily program Cas9 to cleave at specific DNA sites forms the bedrock of the promise Cas9 holds for a wide variety of genetic-engineering applications. It has already been used to make genetic changes in plants & animals. Cas9 can be mixed with a special guide-RNA to form surveillance machine to hit right DNA-targets. The sequence of the guide RNA determines the specificity of the DNA-targets by virtue of base-pairing between guide-RNA & DNA-target. But Cas9 does not always hit the right targets causing off-target effects. My research involves the use of single molecule-FRET to investigate this problem, the mechanism of Cas9 action and kinetics of Cas9-binding onto a wide variety of DNA-targets. My image attempts to show the schematic of my experiments and showcase the power of science that enabled us real-time visualization of biological events at the single-molecule level. The DNA-targets are selectively immobilized on a passivated-surface with Cas9-complex in solution. These molecules are labeled with bright-dyes that enable their detection and thus their interaction-behavior can be studied in-singulo.
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- http://hdl.handle.net/2142/75877
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2015 Digvijay Singh
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