The eukaryotic way to defend and edit genomes by sRNA-targeted DNA deletion

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1341, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 106-114

  Swart, Estienne C ^a   Nowacki, Mariusz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CRISPR Cas; DNA excision; Genome editing; IES Ias; SRNA; SRNA targeted DNA deletion

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; DNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; EPIGENETICS; EUKARYOTE; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; RNA INTERFERENCE; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; DNA; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84926192226     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12636     Document Type: Article

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