Cas3 is a limiting factor for CRISPR-Cas immunity in Escherichia coli cells lacking H-NS

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Majsec, Kristina ^a   Bolt, Edward L ^b   Ivančić Baće, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CRISPR Cas; E. coli; H NS; HtpG; PAM; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNITY; LYSIS; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DNA HELICASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; FIMG PROTEIN, E COLI; YGCB PROTEIN, E COLI;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84960355226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0643-5     Document Type: Article

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