CRISPR-associated protein 2 | |||||||||
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Symbol | cas2 | ||||||||
Pfam | PF09827 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR019199 | ||||||||
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Cas2 is a protein associated with CRISPR that is involved with spacer acquisition. Representative cas2 proteins have been characterized as endonucleases that cleave single-stranded RNAs preferentially within U-rich regions, [1] or as metal-dependent endonucleases targeting double-stranded (ds)DNA [2]