CRISPR-Cas9 base editor (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

CRISPR-Cas9 base editor

Caption

The 3D structure of a base editor, comprised of the Cas9 protein (white and gray), which binds to a DNA target (teal and blue helix) complementary to the RNA guide (purple), and the deaminase proteins (red and pink), which switch out one nucleotide for another.

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UC Berkeley image by Gavin Knott and Audrone Lapinaite

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