Sentences with phrase «associated endonuclease»

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Through the combination of CRISPRs and RNA - guided endonucleases, such as Cas9, («Cas» stands for CRISPR - associated), bacteria are able to utilize small customized crRNA molecules (for CRISPR RNA) to guide the targeting and degradation of matching DNA sequences in invading viruses and plasmids to prevent them from replicating.