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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
David R. Liu, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kevin Davis, Cambridge, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Some aspects of this disclosure provide compositions, methods, systems, and kits for controlling the activity of RNA-programmable endonucleases, such as Cas9, or for controlling the activity of proteins comprising a Cas9 variant fused to a functional effector domain, such as a nuclease, nickase, recombinase, deaminase, transcriptional activator, transcriptional repressor, or epigenetic modifying domain. For example, the inventive proteins provided comprise a ligand-dependent intein, the presence of which inhibits one or more activities of the protein (e.g., gRNA binding, enzymatic activity, target DNA binding). The binding of a ligand to the intein results in self-excision of the intein, restoring the activity of the protein.