Cas6 specificity and CRISPR RNA loading in a complex CRISPR-Cas system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6532-6541

  Sokolowski, Richard D ^a   Graham, Shirley ^a   White, Malcolm F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CAS6 1 ENZYME; CAS6 3 ENZYME; CRISPR RNA; ENDONUCLEASE; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CRISPR REPEAT FAMILY AB; CRISPR REPEAT FAMILY CD; DNA HAIRPIN; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN RNA COMPLEX; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 84903202938     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku308     Document Type: Article

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