Resistance and tolerance to foreign elements by prokaryotic immune systems-curating the genome

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 717-724

  Goldberg, Gregory W ^a   Marraffini, Luciano A ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DPNIIB PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHROMOSOME; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LYSOGENIZATION; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; METHYLATION; MICROBIAL GENOME; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNE TOLERANCE;

EID: 84944882221     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3910     Document Type: Review

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