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. 2023 Sep 26;11(10):2404. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11102404

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Fundamental components of CRISPR-Cas13. Cas13 has trans-collateral activity that allows it to cleave ssRNA that is not specific. It unleashes a nonspecific RNase activity after being activated by an ssRNA sequence with complementarity to its crRNA spacer breaks.