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Jennifer Doudna

Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Verified email at berkeley.edu
Cited by 130534

A programmable dual-RNA–guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity

M Jinek, K Chylinski, I Fonfara, M Hauer, JA Doudna… - science, 2012 - science.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas)
systems provide bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against viruses and …

The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9

JA Doudna, E Charpentier - Science, 2014 - science.org
Background Technologies for making and manipulating DNA have enabled advances in
biology ever since the discovery of the DNA double helix. But introducing site-specific …

RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea

B Wiedenheft, SH Sternberg, JA Doudna - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) are essential components
of nucleic-acid-based adaptive immune systems that are widespread in bacteria and …

Programmable RNA recognition and cleavage by CRISPR/Cas9

…, SH Sternberg, A East-Seletsky, M Kaplan, JA Doudna - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 is an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease that uses RNA–DNA
complementarity to identify target sites for sequence-specific double-stranded DNA (…

CRISPR-Cas guides the future of genetic engineering

GJ Knott, JA Doudna - Science, 2018 - science.org
… We thank members of the Doudna laboratory for discussion. Special thanks to SC Strutt, JC
… We thank members of the Doudna laboratory for discussion. Special thanks to SC Strutt, JC …

Conformational control of DNA target cleavage by CRISPR–Cas9

SH Sternberg, B LaFrance, M Kaplan, JA Doudna - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Cas9 is an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease that targets foreign DNA for destruction as part
of a bacterial adaptive immune system mediated by clustered regularly interspaced short …

A Cas9–guide RNA complex preorganized for target DNA recognition

F Jiang, K Zhou, L Ma, S Gressel, JA Doudna - Science, 2015 - science.org
Bacterial adaptive immunity uses CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats)–associated (Cas) proteins together with CRISPR transcripts for foreign DNA …

CRISPR-Cas12a target binding unleashes indiscriminate single-stranded DNase activity

…, M Da Costa, X Tian, JM Palefsky, JA Doudna - Science, 2018 - science.org
CRISPR-Cas12a (Cpf1) proteins are RNA-guided enzymes that bind and cut DNA as
components of bacterial adaptive immune systems. Like CRISPR-Cas9, Cas12a has been …

Integrase-mediated spacer acquisition during CRISPR–Cas adaptive immunity

JK Nuñez, ASY Lee, A Engelman, JA Doudna - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Bacteria and archaea insert spacer sequences acquired from foreign DNAs into CRISPR
loci to generate immunological memory. The Escherichia coli Cas1–Cas2 complex mediates …

Structures of Cas9 endonucleases reveal RNA-mediated conformational activation

…, AT Iavarone, E Charpentier, E Nogales, JA Doudna - Science, 2014 - science.org
Introduction Bacteria and archaea defend themselves against invasive DNA using adaptive
immune systems comprising CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic …