Figure 4.

Cascade/I-C and Cas3/I-C form a stable complex during interference. (A) Schematic representation of 100 bp DNA substrates with biotin (black dot) at 5′ end of the non-target strand (NTS), 6-FAM (shown as green star) at 5th nucleotide, Iowa Black® FQ (shown as brown dot) at 28th nucleotide on target strand (TS) and PAM sequence TTC (depicted in red). (B) Substrate mentioned above was incubated with or without Cascade/I-C (1 μM) and increasing concentration of Cas3/I-C (0–5 μM). A significant decline in fluorescence intensity is evident when both Cascade/I-C and Cas3/I-C were present. There was no apparent quenching when dsDNA and ssDNA were used in the absence of Cascade/I-C. (C) Fluorescence quenching was observed in the presence of ATP but not when ADP and AMP-PNP were used.