1. A method for the quantitative detection of Cas12a ribonucleoproteins.
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Qiao, Jie, Lin, Siyu, Sun, Wenli, Ma, Lixin, and Liu, Yi
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NUCLEOPROTEINS , *QUANTITATIVE research , *GENOME editing , *MOLECULAR diagnosis , *DETECTION limit , *SCALABILITY - Abstract
Cas12a ribonucleoprotein (RNP) is an RNA-guided CRISPR-associated nuclease used widely for genome editing and molecular diagnostics. Conventional detection methods rely on adopting antibody-based reagents that are expensive and lack scalability, and, moreover, only detect Cas12 enzyme rather than RNP, which is the true effector. Here, we describe a method for the rapid and quantitative detection of the effective Cas12a RNPs by the combined use of anti-CRISPR protein AcrVA1 and stem-loop RT-qPCR, achieving a limit of detection (LOD) of 1 fM in reaction buffer and 0.1 pM under biologically representative conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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