Casposons: A new superfamily of self-synthesizing DNA transposons at the origin of prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immunity

BMC Biology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Krupovic, Mart ^a   Makarova, Kira S ^b   Forterre, Patrick ^a   Prangishvili, David ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive immunity; Archaea; CRISPR Cas system; DNA polymerases; Mobile genetic elements; Transposons

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; GENOMIC ISLAND; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENOMIC ISLANDS; IMMUNITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84902203191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-12-36     Document Type: Article

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