Casposons: mobile genetic elements that gave rise to the CRISPR-Cas adaptation machinery

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue , 2017, Pages 36-43

  Krupovic, Mart ^a   Béguin, Pierre ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CAS1 PROTEIN; CASPOSASE; ENDONUCLEASE; INTEGRASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CASPOSON; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; ADAPTATION; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; INTERSPERSED REPEAT;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES;

EID: 85018396322     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.04.004     Document Type: Review

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