Split Cas12a Protospacer Engineering Enables Ultraspecific Recognition of a PAM-Less DNA Strand via an External PAM-Proximal Duplex
CRISPR-Cas12a is a programmable RNA-guided endonuclease whose activation by double-stranded DNA normally depends on the recognition of an adjacent protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM), which constrains target selection in diagnostic applications. Here, we divide the DNA activator into PAM-proximal (Pp) and PAM-distal (Pd)...