期刊
CELL HOST & MICROBE
卷 29, 期 5, 页码 689-703出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2021.04.003
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资金
- Merck KGaA's Future Insight Prize
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [D18AC00006]
- Flu Lab
Despite the lack of diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, CRISPR-Cas systems show potential in addressing critical needs against infectious diseases, especially in viral diagnostics and therapies. Technologies related to CRISPR-Cas, particularly DNA-targeting Cas12 and RNA-targeting Cas13, are being harnessed for these purposes with accelerated development in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite numerous viral outbreaks in the last decade, including a devastating global pandemic, diagnostic and therapeutic technologies remain severely lacking. CRISPR-Cas systems have the potential to address these critical needs in the response against infectious disease. Initially discovered as the bacterial adaptive immune system, these systems provide a unique opportunity to create programmable, sequence-specific technologies for detection of viral nucleic acids and inhibition of viral replication. This review summarizes how CRISPR-Cas systems-in particular the recently discovered DNA-targeting Cas12 and RNA-targeting Cas13, both possessing a unique trans-cleavage activity-are being harnessed for viral diagnostics and therapies. We further highlight the numerous technologies whose development has accelerated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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