Unravelling the structural and mechanistic basis of CRISPR–Cas systems

J Van Der Oost, ER Westra, RN Jackson… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Bacteria and archaea have evolved sophisticated adaptive immune systems, known as
CRISPR–Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats–CRISPR …

CRISPR-mediated adaptive immune systems in bacteria and archaea

R Sorek, CM Lawrence… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Effective clearance of an infection requires that the immune system rapidly detects and
neutralizes invading parasites while strictly avoiding self-antigens that would result in …

Protospacer recognition motifs: mixed identities and functional diversity

SA Shah, S Erdmann, FJM Mojica, RA Garrett - RNA biology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Protospacer adjacent motifs (PAMs) were originally characterized for CRISPR-Cas systems
that were classified on the basis of their CRISPR repeat sequences. A few short 2–5 bp …

Cytotoxic chromosomal targeting by CRISPR/Cas systems can reshape bacterial genomes and expel or remodel pathogenicity islands

RB Vercoe, JT Chang, RL Dy, C Taylor… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
In prokaryotes, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) and
their associated (Cas) proteins constitute a defence system against bacteriophages and …

Bipartite recognition of target RNAs activates DNA cleavage by the Type III-B CRISPR–Cas system

JR Elmore, NF Sheppard, N Ramia… - Genes & …, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
CRISPR–Cas systems eliminate nucleic acid invaders in bacteria and archaea. The effector
complex of the Type III-B Cmr system cleaves invader RNAs recognized by the CRISPR …

Evolutionary and mechanistic diversity of Type IF CRISPR-associated transposons

SE Klompe, N Jaber, LY Beh, JT Mohabir, A Bernheim… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Canonical CRISPR-Cas systems utilize RNA-guided nucleases for targeted cleavage of
foreign nucleic acids, whereas some nuclease-deficient CRISPR-Cas complexes have been …

Type IE CRISPR-cas systems discriminate target from non-target DNA through base pairing-independent PAM recognition

ER Westra, E Semenova, KA Datsenko… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Discriminating self and non-self is a universal requirement of immune systems. Adaptive
immune systems in prokaryotes are centered around repetitive loci called CRISPRs …

Priming in the Type IF CRISPR-Cas system triggers strand-independent spacer acquisition, bi-directionally from the primed protospacer

C Richter, RL Dy, RE McKenzie… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), in combination with
CRISPR associated (cas) genes, constitute CRISPR-Cas bacterial adaptive immune …

Mechanism for Cas4-assisted directional spacer acquisition in CRISPR–Cas

C Hu, C Almendros, KH Nam, AR Costa, JNA Vink… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Prokaryotes adapt to challenges from mobile genetic elements by integrating spacers
derived from foreign DNA in the CRISPR array. Spacer insertion is carried out by the Cas1 …

Method of modulating cell resistance

R Barrangou, P Boyaval, C Fremaux… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
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