Spacer Extension Reconciles Specificity and Activity in High-Fidelity Cas9 Genome Editing
Rong Zheng, Zhike Lu, Rongwei Wei, Young-Cheul Shin, Jiang Du, Qingfeng Zhang, Jianbo Li, Xiaoqi Wang, Yi Wei, Botao Liu, Yang Chen, Lihong Ding, Heng Zhang, Hui Chen, Jing Huang, Lijia Ma
This study shows extending the spacer in SuperFi-Cas9 restores cleavage activity while maintaining specificity, offering a strategy to improve CRISPR efficiency and stability.
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · Mar 18, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics