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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cell Biochem. 2017 Jul 4;118(11):3586–3594. doi: 10.1002/jcb.26099

TABLE 1.

ENZYME Species Gene Size (Kb) Protein Size (kD) PAM DNA/RNA Reference
SpCas9 Streptococcus Pyogenes 4.2 160 NGG DNA Jinek et al., 2012
SaCas9 Streptococcus aureus 3.3 105 NGRRT or NGRRN DNA Ran et al., 2016
CjCas9 Campylobacter jejuni 2.95 99 NNNNACAC or NNNNRY DNA Kim et al., 2017
FnCas9 Francisella Novicida 4.8 160 NGG RNA Hirano et al., 2016
Cpf1 Acidamino coccus sp. 3.9 130 TTTN or YTN DNA Zetsche et al., 2015
C2c2 Leptotrichia Shahii 4.3 140 Not Applicable RNA Abudayyeh et al., 2015
CasX Plancto mycetes/Deltaproteo bacteria 2.94 98 TTCN DNA Burstein et al., 2017
CasY Unknown 3.6 120 TA DNA Burstein et al., 2017

PAM is the protospacer adjacent motif.

N = A, C, G or T; R = C or G; Y = A or T