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US 10,329,547 B1Granted
Engineered cascade components and cascade complexes
AssigneeCaribou Biosciences, Inc.
InventorsPeter Sean Cameron, Sanne Eveline Klompe, Samuel Henry Sternberg
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides engineered Class 1 Type I CRISPR-Cas (Cascade) systems that comprise multi-protein effector complexes, nucleoprotein complexes comprising Type I CRISPR-Cas subunit proteins and nucleic acid guides, polynucleotides encoding Type I CRISPR-Cas subunit proteins, and guide polynucleotides. Also, disclosed are methods for making and using the engineered Class 1 Type I CRISPR-Cas systems of the present invention.
Claims20
A cell comprising:
- a composition comprising,
- a first engineered Class 1 Type I CRISPR-Cas effector complex comprising,
- a first Cse2 subunit protein, a first Cas5 subunit protein, a first Cas6 subunit protein, and a first Cas7 subunit protein,
- a first fusion protein comprising a first Cas8 subunit protein and a first FokI, wherein the N-terminus of the first Cas8 subunit protein or the C-terminus of the first Cas8 subunit protein is covalently connected by a first linker polypeptide to the C-terminus or N-terminus, respectively, of the first FokI, and wherein the first linker polypeptide has a length of between 10 amino acids and 40 amino acids, and
- a first guide polynucleotide comprising a first spacer capable of binding a first nucleic acid target sequence;
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- a second engineered Class 1 Type I CRISPR-Cas effector complex comprising,
- a second Cse2 subunit protein, a second Cas5 subunit protein, a second Cas6 subunit protein, and a second Cas7 subunit protein,
- a second fusion protein comprising a second Cas8 subunit protein and a second FokI, wherein the N-terminus of the second Cas8 subunit protein or the C-terminus of the second Cas8 subunit protein is covalently connected by a second linker polypeptide to the C-terminus or N-terminus, respectively, of the second FokI, and wherein the second linker polypeptide has a length of between 10 amino acids and 40 amino acids, and
- a second guide polynucleotide comprising a second spacer capable of binding a second nucleic acid target sequence, wherein a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) of the second nucleic acid target sequence and a PAM of the first nucleic acid target sequence have an interspacer distance of between 20 base pairs and 42 base pairs;
- wherein the cell is outside of a human body.
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