In vitro assembly and activity of an archaeal CRISPR-Cas type I-A Cascade interference complex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5125-5138

  Plagens, André ^a   Tripp, Vanessa ^a   Daume, Michael ^a   Sharma, Kundan ^b   Klingl, Andreas ^c   Hrle, Ajla ^d   Conti, Elena ^d   Urlaub, Henning ^b   Randau, Lennart ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAS 1A PROTEIN; CAS5A PROTEIN; CAS7 PROTEIN; CAS8A2 PROTEIN; CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CSA5 PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN REFOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOPROTEUS TENAX;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ARCHAEAL; THERMOPROTEUS;

EID: 84899810698     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku120     Document Type: Article

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