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 …

The CRISPR-Cas mechanism for adaptive immunity and alternate bacterial functions fuels diverse biotechnologies

S Newsom, HP Parameshwaran, L Martin… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial and archaeal CRISPR-Cas systems offer adaptive immune protection against
foreign mobile genetic elements (MGEs). This function is regulated by sequence specific …

Precise transcript targeting by CRISPR-Csm complexes

D Colognori, M Trinidad, JA Doudna - Nature biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
Robust and precise transcript targeting in mammalian cells remains a difficult challenge
using existing approaches due to inefficiency, imprecision and subcellular …

Bio-layer interferometry analysis of the target binding activity of CRISPR-Cas effector complexes

H Müller-Esparza, M Osorio-Valeriano… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
CRISPR-Cas systems employ ribonucleoprotein complexes to identify nucleic acid targets
with complementarity to bound CRISPR RNAs. Analyses of the high diversification of these …

Molecular basis for inhibition of type III-B CRISPR-Cas by an archaeal viral anti-CRISPR protein

J Lin, L Alfastsen, Y Bhoobalan-Chitty, X Peng - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Despite a wide presence of type III clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats, CRISPR-associated (CRISPR-Cas) in archaea and bacteria, very few anti-CRISPR …

Applications of CRISPR-Cas systems in lactic acid bacteria

A Roberts, R Barrangou - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2020 - academic.oup.com
As a phenotypically and phylogenetically diverse group, lactic acid bacteria are found in a
variety of natural environments and occupy important roles in medicine, biotechnology, food …

Type III-A CRISPR-associated protein Csm6 degrades cyclic hexa-adenylate activator using both CARF and HEPN domains

D Smalakyte, M Kazlauskiene… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The type III CRISPR–Cas systems provide immunity against invading nucleic acids
through the coordinated transcription-dependent DNA targeting and cyclic adenylate (cA n) …

Retention of the RNA ends provides the molecular memory for maintaining the activation of the Csm complex

P Irmisch, I Mogila, B Samatanga… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The type III CRISPR-Cas effector complex Csm functions as a molecular Swiss
army knife that provides multilevel defense against foreign nucleic acids. The coordinated …

RNA-dependent RNA targeting by CRISPR-cas systems: characterizations and applications

N Gunitseva, M Evteeva, A Borisova… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Genome editing technologies that are currently available and described have a fundamental
impact on the development of molecular biology and medicine, industrial and agricultural …

Structural and biochemical characterization of in vivo assembled Lactococcus lactis CRISPR-Csm complex

S Sridhara, J Rai, C Whyms, H Goswami, H He… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The small RNA-mediated immunity in bacteria depends on foreign RNA-activated and self
RNA-inhibited enzymatic activities. The multi-subunit Type III-A CRISPR-Cas effector …