CRISPR-Cas9 nuclear dynamics and target recognition in living cells

How CRISPR Cas9–guide RNA complexes navigate the nucleus and interrogate the genome is not well understood. Ma et al. track these complexes in live cells and find that mutations in the guide seed region significantly reduced the complex’s target residence time, with a commensurate impairment of cleavage.

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