Characterizing a thermostable Cas9 for bacterial genome editing and silencing

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Mougiakos, Ioannis ^a   Mohanraju, Prarthana ^a   Bosma, Elleke F ^a,c   Vrouwe, Valentijn ^a   Finger Bou, Max ^a   Naduthodi, Mihris I S ^a   Gussak, Alex ^a   Brinkman, Rudolf B L ^b   Van Kranenburg, Richard ^a,b   Van Der Oost, John ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Corbion ^*  (Netherlands)

^c Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EUKARYOTE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; LOW TEMPERATURE; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN; RNA; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIAL GENOME; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; GEOBACILLUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; BACILLUS; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SMITHII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; GEOBACILLUS THERMODENITRIFICANS; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDONUCLEASE;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDONUCLEASES; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE EDITING; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEOBACILLUS; HOT TEMPERATURE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 85034733585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01591-4     Document Type: Article

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