The on-off switch of CRISPR immunity against phages in Escherichia coli: MicroCommentary

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1341-1345

  Mojica, Francisco J M ^a   Díez Villaseñor, César ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CLUSTERS OF REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

COLIPHAGES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77956624244     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07326.x     Document Type: Note

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