Ago	Argonaute
AIDS	acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
CRISPR	clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
CRISPR-Cas9	clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats associated protein 9
Cas9-NLS	cas9 with a nuclear localization signal
crRNA	CRISPR RNA
dCas9	dead version of Cas9
DSB	double stranded break
dsRNA	double-stranded RNA
HR	homologous recombination
HDR	homology directed repair
IDT	integrated DNA technologies
MIC	minimum inhibitory concentration
mRNA	messenger RNA
NHEJ	non-homologous end joining
NGG	nucleotide- guanine-guanine
PAM	protospacer adjacent motif
PKS	polyketide synthase
REMI	restriction enzyme mediated integration
RISC	RNA- induced silencing complex
RVD	repeat variable di-residues
SAT1-FLP	SAT1 flipper
siRNA	small interfering RNA
sgRNA	single guide RNA
SNP	single nucleotide polymorphism
TALEN	transcription activator-like effector nucleases
tracrRNA	trans-activating crRNA
ZFN	zinc-finger nuclease