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Friday, 02-08-2024 | 08:23
The two popular genome editor nucleases, Cas9 and Cas12a, hypothetically evolved from IscB and TnpB, respectively (Altae-Tran et al., 2021). Recent reports showed that TnpBs also function as RNA-guided nucleases in human cells (Karvelis et al., 2021). TnpB proteins are much smaller (~400 aa) than Cas9 (~1000–1400 aa) and Cas12a (~1300 aa). The large cargo size of Cas9 and Cas12a hinders their delivery into cells, particularly through viral vectors



