Molecular memory of prior infections activates the CRISPR/Cas adaptive bacterial immunity system

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Datsenko, Kirill A ^a,b   Pougach, Ksenia ^a,c   Tikhonov, Anton ^a,c   Wanner, Barry L ^b   Severinov, Konstantin ^a,c,d   Semenova, Ekaterina ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT ASSOCIATED GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROKARYOTE; VIRUS; VIRUS MUTANT; BACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INVERTED REPEAT;

BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84864864464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1937     Document Type: Article

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