CRISPR: New horizons in phage resistance and strain identification

Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 143-162

  Barrangou, Rodolphe ^a   Horvath, Philippe ^b  

^a Danisco USA Inc   (United States)

^b Iff Danisco France Sas   (France)

Author keywords

bacteriophage; cas gene; immunity; interference; starter culture; typing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BIFIDOBACTERIA; CAS GENES; DEFENSE SYSTEM; FOOD INDUSTRIES; FOOD MANUFACTURING; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; GENETIC ELEMENTS; GENETIC TYPING; IMMUNITY; INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; INDUSTRIAL STRAIN; LACTIC ACID BACTERIA; LEUCONOSTOC; MANUFACTURING CONDITIONS; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROTEIN; PALINDROMIC; RESTRICTION-MODIFICATION; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STARTER CULTURES; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TYPING;

BACILLI; DAIRY PRODUCTS; GENES; LACTIC ACID; NUCLEIC ACIDS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; LEUCONOSTOC; STREPTOCOCCUS;

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CLASSIFICATION; FERMENTATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; INVERTED REPEAT; LYSOGENIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

BACTERIOPHAGES; FERMENTATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, VIRAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LYSOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84862657238     PISSN: 19411413     EISSN: 19411421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-food-022811-101134     Document Type: Article

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