Essential requirements for the detection and degradation of invaders by the Haloferax volcanii CRISPR/Cas system I-B

RNA Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 865-874

  Maier, Lisa Katharina ^a   Lange, Sita J ^b   Stoll, Britta ^a   Haas, Karina A ^a   Fischer, Susan ^a   Fischer, Eike ^a   Duchardt Ferner, Elke ^c   Wöhnert, Jens ^c   Backofen, Rolf ^b,d   Marchfelder, Anita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archaea; CRISPR Cas; crRNA; Haloferax volcanii; PAM; Seed sequence

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; CR RNA; PLASMID DNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARCHAEAL RNA; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCUS; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; IMMUNITY; INTERACTIONS WITH DNA; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INVERTED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; HALOFERAX; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PROKARYOTA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84879011562     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.24282     Document Type: Article

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