The ring of confidence: A haloarchaeal CRISPR/Cas system

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 374-378

  Maier, Lisa Katharina ^a   Stoll, Britta ^a   Brendel, Jutta ^a   Fischer, Susan ^a   Pfeiffer, Friedhelm ^b   Dyall Smith, Mike ^c   Marchfelder, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR); CRISPR associated (CAS); CrRNA; Haloferax volcanii; Protospacer adjacent motif (PAM); Type I B

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA; RNA;

BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MINICHROMOSOME; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE;

BASE SEQUENCE; HALOFERAX; RNA, ARCHAEAL;

EID: 84873119485     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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