Novel configurations of type I and II CRISPR-Cas systems in Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART 10, 2013, Pages 2118-2126

  Sangal, Vartul ^a   Fineran, Peter C ^b   Hoskisson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT TYPE I; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT TYPE II; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE LOCATION; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE COMPOSITION; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENOMIC STRUCTURAL VARIATION; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84884738017     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.070235-0     Document Type: Article

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