crRNA and tracrRNA guide Cas9-mediated DNA interference in Streptococcus thermophilus

RNA Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 841-851

  Karvelis, Tautvydas ^a   Gasiunas, Giedrius ^a   Miksys, Algirdas ^a   Barrangou, Rodolphe ^b   Horvath, Philippe ^c   Siksnys, Virginijus ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

CRISPR; DNA silencing; Type II CRISPR Cas systems

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CAS9 PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEASE III; TRANS ACTIVATING CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOGENESIS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 84879016248     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.24203     Document Type: Article

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