Degeneration of a CRISPR/Cas system and its regulatory target during the evolution of a pathogen

RNA Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1618-1622

  Sampson, Timothy R ^a,b   Weiss, David S ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial evolution; Bacterial pathogenesis; CRiSPR Cas; Gene expression; Regulatory RNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FRANCISELLA NOVICIDA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; RNA STABILITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; PATHOGENICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS SUBSP. NOVICIDA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; FRANCISELLA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LIPOPROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84886081565     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.26423     Document Type: Article

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