The bacterial CRISPR/Cas system as analog of the mammalian adaptive immune system

RNA Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 549-554

  Goren, Moran G ^a   Yosef, Ido ^a   Edgar, Rotem ^a   Qimron, Udi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chaperones; Defense mechanism; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AUTOIMMUNITY; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

EID: 84862190119     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.20177     Document Type: Review

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