Short motif sequences determine the targets of the prokaryotic CRISPR defence system

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 733-740

  Mojica, F J M ^a   Diez Villasenor C ^a   Garcia Martinez J ^a   Almendros, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTO SPACER ADJACENT MOTIF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTIC CELL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SHORT INTERSPERSED REPEAT; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TARGET CELL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIAL RNA; SPACER DNA;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 64049118040     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.023960-0     Document Type: Article

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