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Science, volume 337, issue 6096, pages 816-821

A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity

Jinek Martin 1, 2
Chyliński Krzysztof 3, 4
FONFARA INES 4
Hauer Michael 2
Doudna Jennifer A. 1, 2, 5, 6
Charpentier Emmanuelle 4
1
 
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
2
 
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
3
 
Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), University of Vienna, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.
5
 
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2012-06-28
Journal: Science
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
Q1
Impact factor56.9
ISSN00368075, 10959203
Multidisciplinary
Abstract
Ditching Invading DNA Bacteria and archaea protect themselves from invasive foreign nucleic acids through an RNA-mediated adaptive immune system called CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/CRISPR-associated (Cas). Jinek et al. (p. 816, published online 28 June; see the Perspective by Brouns) found that for the type II CRISPR/Cas system, the CRISPR RNA (crRNA) as well as the trans-activating crRNA—which is known to be involved in the pre-crRNA processing—were both required to direct the Cas9 endonuclease to cleave the invading target DNA. Furthermore, engineered RNA molecules were able to program the Cas9 endonuclease to cleave specific DNA sequences to generate double-stranded DNA breaks. A prokaryotic RNA–directed targeting system can be designed to cleave any DNA sequence. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems provide bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against viruses and plasmids by using CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) to guide the silencing of invading nucleic acids. We show here that in a subset of these systems, the mature crRNA that is base-paired to trans-activating crRNA (tracrRNA) forms a two-RNA structure that directs the CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 to introduce double-stranded (ds) breaks in target DNA. At sites complementary to the crRNA-guide sequence, the Cas9 HNH nuclease domain cleaves the complementary strand, whereas the Cas9 RuvC-like domain cleaves the noncomplementary strand. The dual-tracrRNA:crRNA, when engineered as a single RNA chimera, also directs sequence-specific Cas9 dsDNA cleavage. Our study reveals a family of endonucleases that use dual-RNAs for site-specific DNA cleavage and highlights the potential to exploit the system for RNA-programmable genome editing.

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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1126/science.1225829
UR - https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1225829
TI - A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity
T2 - Science
AU - Jinek, Martin
AU - Chyliński, Krzysztof
AU - FONFARA, INES
AU - Hauer, Michael
AU - Doudna, Jennifer A.
AU - Charpentier, Emmanuelle
PY - 2012
DA - 2012/06/28 00:00:00
PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
SP - 816-821
IS - 6096
VL - 337
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@article{2012_Jinek,
author = {Martin Jinek and Krzysztof Chyliński and INES FONFARA and Michael Hauer and Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier},
title = {A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity},
journal = {Science},
year = {2012},
volume = {337},
publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)},
month = {jun},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1225829},
number = {6096},
pages = {816--821},
doi = {10.1126/science.1225829}
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Jinek, Martin, et al. “A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity.” Science, vol. 337, no. 6096, Jun. 2012, pp. 816-821. https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1225829.
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