Structural basis for the promiscuous PAM recognition by Corynebacterium diphtheriae Cas9
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Hirano, Seiichi
Abudayyeh, Omar O.
Gootenberg, Jonathan S
Horii, Takuro
Ishitani, Ryuichiro
Hatada, Izuho
Zhang, Feng
Nishimasu, Hiroshi
Nureki, Osamu
Date Issued
April 2019
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Nature Communications
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Hirano, Seiichi, et al. "Structural basis for the promiscuous PAM recognition by Corynebacterium diphtheriae Cas9." Nature Communications 10, 1 (April 2019): 1968 © 2019 The Author(s)
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Abstract
The RNA-guided DNA endonuclease Cas9 cleaves double-stranded DNA targets bearing a protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) and complementarity to an RNA guide. Unlike other Cas9 orthologs, Corynebacterium diphtheriae Cas9 (CdCas9) recognizes the promiscuous NNRHHHY PAM. However, the CdCas9-mediated PAM recognition mechanism remains unknown. Here, we report the crystal structure of CdCas9 in complex with the guide RNA and its target DNA at 2.9 Å resolution. The structure reveals that CdCas9 recognizes the NNRHHHY PAM via a combination of van der Waals interactions and base-specific hydrogen bonds. Moreover, we find that CdCas9 exhibits robust DNA cleavage activity with the optimal 22-nucleotide length guide RNAs. Our findings highlight the mechanistic diversity of the PAM recognition by Cas9 orthologs, and provide a basis for the further engineering of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editor nucleases. Keyword: DNA restriction-modification enzymes; X-ray crystallography
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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