Abortive infection: bacterial suicide as an antiviral immune strategy

A Lopatina, N Tal, R Sorek - Annual review of virology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Facing frequent phage challenges, bacteria have evolved numerous mechanisms to resist
phage infection. A commonly used phage resistance strategy is abortive infection (Abi), in …

History of CRISPR-Cas from encounter with a mysterious repeated sequence to genome editing technology

Y Ishino, M Krupovic, P Forterre - Journal of bacteriology, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-Cas systems are well-
known acquired immunity systems that are widespread in archaea and bacteria. The RNA …

RNA-targeting CRISPR–Cas systems

SPB van Beljouw, J Sanders… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas is a widespread adaptive immune system in bacteria and archaea that
protects against viral infection by targeting specific invading nucleic acid sequences …

A cyclic oligonucleotide signaling pathway in type III CRISPR-Cas systems

M Kazlauskiene, G Kostiuk, Č Venclovas, G Tamulaitis… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Type III CRISPR-Cas systems in prokaryotes provide immunity against invading nucleic
acids through the coordinated degradation of transcriptionally active DNA and its transcripts …

Type III CRISPR–Cas systems produce cyclic oligoadenylate second messengers

O Niewoehner, C Garcia-Doval, JT Rostøl, C Berk… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
In many prokaryotes, type III clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat
(CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems detect and degrade invasive genetic …

Structure and engineering of the type III-E CRISPR-Cas7-11 effector complex

K Kato, W Zhou, S Okazaki, Y Isayama, T Nishizawa… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary The type III-E CRISPR-Cas effector Cas7-11, with dual RNase activities for
precursor CRISPR RNA (pre-crRNA) processing and crRNA-guided target RNA cleavage, is …

Cyclic nucleotide signaling in phage defense and counter-defense

JS Athukoralage, MF White - Annual review of virology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Advances in our understanding of prokaryotic antiphage defense mechanisms in the past
few years have revealed a multitude of new cyclic nucleotide signaling molecules that play a …

Delivery of CRISPR/Cas systems for cancer gene therapy and immunotherapy

X Song, C Liu, N Wang, H Huang, S He, C Gong… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-
associated protein (Cas) systems are efficient and versatile gene editing tools, which offer …

[HTML][HTML] Antiviral type III CRISPR signalling via conjugation of ATP and SAM

H Chi, V Hoikkala, S Grüschow, S Graham, S Shirran… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR systems are widespread in the prokaryotic world, providing adaptive immunity
against mobile genetic elements,. Type III CRISPR systems, with the signature gene cas10 …

The revolution continues: newly discovered systems expand the CRISPR-Cas toolkit

K Murugan, K Babu, R Sundaresan, R Rajan… - Molecular cell, 2017 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas systems defend prokaryotes against bacteriophages and mobile genetic
elements and serve as the basis for revolutionary tools for genetic engineering. Class 2 …