Structural biology of CRISPR–Cas immunity and genome editing enzymes

JY Wang, P Pausch, JA Doudna - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide resistance against foreign mobile genetic elements and have
a wide range of genome editing and biotechnological applications. In this Review, we …

The biology of CRISPR-Cas: backward and forward

F Hille, H Richter, SP Wong, M Bratovič, S Ressel… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
In bacteria and archaea, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
(CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins constitute an adaptive immune system …

Phage anti-CBASS and anti-Pycsar nucleases subvert bacterial immunity

SJ Hobbs, T Wein, A Lu, BR Morehouse, J Schnabel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The cyclic oligonucleotide-based antiphage signalling system (CBASS) and the pyrimidine
cyclase system for antiphage resistance (Pycsar) are antiphage defence systems in diverse …

Controlling and enhancing CRISPR systems

H Shivram, BF Cress, GJ Knott, JA Doudna - Nature chemical biology, 2021 - nature.com
Many bacterial and archaeal organisms use clustered regularly interspaced short
palindromic repeats–CRISPR associated (CRISPR–Cas) systems to defend themselves …

Cryo-EM in drug discovery: achievements, limitations and prospects

JP Renaud, A Chari, C Ciferri, W Liu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) of non-crystalline single particles is a biophysical
technique that can be used to determine the structure of biological macromolecules and …

Anti-CRISPR: discovery, mechanism and function

A Pawluk, AR Davidson, KL Maxwell - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas adaptive immune systems are widespread among bacteria and archaea.
Recent studies have shown that these systems have minimal long-term evolutionary effects …

Bacteriophages suppress CRISPR–Cas immunity using RNA-based anti-CRISPRs

S Camara-Wilpert, D Mayo-Muñoz, J Russel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Many bacteria use CRISPR–Cas systems to combat mobile genetic elements, such as
bacteriophages and plasmids. In turn, these invasive elements have evolved anti-CRISPR …

Antimicrobial activities of 1-phenyl-3-methyl-4-trichloroacetyl-pyrazolone: Experimental, DFT studies, and molecular docking investigation

EA Eno, JI Mbonu, H Louis, FS Patrick-Inezi… - Journal of the Indian …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rate of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is faster than the rate of discovery of new
antibiotic classes. However, development of novel compounds with similar behavior but with …

Disabling Cas9 by an anti-CRISPR DNA mimic

J Shin, F Jiang, JJ Liu, NL Bray, BJ Rauch, SH Baik… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)–Cas9 gene editing
technology is derived from a microbial adaptive immune system, where bacteriophages are …

PAM identification by CRISPR-Cas effector complexes: diversified mechanisms and structures

D Gleditzsch, P Pausch, H Müller-Esparza, A Özcan… - RNA biology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Adaptive immunity of prokaryotes is mediated by CRISPR-Cas systems that employ a large
variety of Cas protein effectors to identify and destroy foreign genetic material. The different …