CRISPR-cas adaptive immune systems of the sulfolobales: Unravelling their complexity and diversity

Life

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 783-817

  Garrett, Roger A ^a   Shah, Shiraz A ^a   Erdmann, Susanne ^b   Liu, Guannan ^a   Mousaei, Marzieh ^a   León Sobrino, Carlos ^a   Peng, Wenfang ^a   Gudbergsdottir, Soley ^a   Deng, Ling ^a   Vestergaard, Gisle ^c   Peng, Xu ^a   She, Qunxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Archaeal viruses; Conjugative plasmids; Crenarchaea; CRISPR cas; CrRNA; Immune response; Integration; Interference; Transposition

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; SULFOLOBALES;

EID: 84924425467     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20751729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/life5010783     Document Type: Review

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