For millions of years, bacteria and viruses have been locked in an evolutionary arms race. Viruses evolving new mechanisms to evade CRISPR, and CRISPR evolving to find different ways of preventing re-infection. CRISPR Cas13a is one such permutation.
Model Description
Cas13a is colored turquoise and tinted according to the protein's bFactor, or atomic temperature. Colored yellow is the target RNA and red is the Guide RNA. 3D print of CRISPR Cas13a printed in full-plastic and created from PDB ID: 5XWP.
