Recent mobility of casposons, self-synthesizing transposons at the origin of the CRISPR-cas immunity

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 375-386

  Krupovic, Mart ^a   Shmakov, Sergey ^b,c   Makarova, Kira S ^b   Forterre, Patrick ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Casposons; CRISPR Cas; Mobile genetic elements; Self synthesizing transposons; Transposition.

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85007236066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw006     Document Type: Article

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