Programmable plasmid interference by the CRISPR-Cas system in Thermococcus kodakarensis

RNA Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 828-840

  Elmore, Joshua R ^a   Yokooji, Yuusuke ^c   Sato, Takaaki ^c   Olson, Sara ^d   Glover III, Claiborne V C ^a   Graveley, Brenton R ^d   Atomi, Haruyuki ^c   Terns, Rebecca M ^a   Terns, Michael P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaea; Cas; CRISPR; DNA; Hyperthermophile; Immune; Interference; RNA; Silencing; Thermococcus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; ARCHAEAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SEQUENCE; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARENSIS; ARCHAEAL VIRUS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOCOCCUS;

EURYARCHAEOTA; PROKARYOTA; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARENSIS;

ARCHAEAL VIRUSES; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PLASMIDS; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; THERMOCOCCUS;

EID: 84879028690     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.24084     Document Type: Article

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