Directional R-loop formation by the CRISPR-cas surveillance complex cascade provides efficient off-target site rejection

Cell Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1534-1543

  Rutkauskas, Marius ^a   Sinkunas, Tomas ^b   Songailiene, Inga ^b   Tikhomirova, MariaS ^a   Siksnys, Virginijus ^b   Seidel, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAS3 PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENT; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTOSPACER ADJACENT MOTIF; SINGLE MOLECULE SUPERCOILING; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 84924592451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.01.067     Document Type: Article

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