Casposon integration shows strong target site preference and recapitulates protospacer integration by CRISPR-Cas systems

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 10367-10376

  Beguin, Pierre ^a   Charpin, Nicole ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b   Forterre, Patrick ^a   Krupovic, Mart ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR APOPTOSIS SUSCEPTIBILITY PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TRANSPOSON;

ACIDULIPROFUNDUM BOONEI; ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASPOSON; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA INTEGRATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INVERTED REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATION; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; METABOLISM;

BINDING SITES; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE ORDER; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 85016146308     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw821     Document Type: Article

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