The “collateral” activation of these proteins is the core of the SHERLOCK and HOLMES methods. The SpRY (“spry”) variant of one of these proteins is significantly more promiscuous because it lacks key arginines at positions 1333 and 1335. A tool co-developed by Dana-Farber and the Broad (“brohd”) for designing experiments with these proteins is called MAGeCK (“mah-GECK”). “Dead” examples of these proteins have been deactivated by mutations in both the HNH and RuvC domain. One of these proteins from S. pyogenes (“pye-OJ-uh-neez”) has been engineered to be “near-PAMless,” expanding its range but increasing the chance of off-target cleavage. One-vector systems package these proteins alongside the sgRNAs that encode their target sequences. For 10 points, name these endonucleases that are directed by guide RNAs produced from CRISPR (“crisper”) sequences. ■END■
ANSWER: Cas nucleases [or CRISPR associated proteins; accept CRISPR/Cas9 or Cas12a or Cas13a; prompt on DNA endonucleases or RNA endonucleases until “endonucleases” is read; reject “CRISPR”] (MAGeCK designs GeCKo knockout libraries.)
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