Discovery and Characterization of Cas9 Inhibitors Disseminated across Seven Bacterial Phyla

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 233-241.e5

  Uribe, Ruben V ^a   van der Helm, Eric ^a   Misiakou, Maria Anna ^a   Lee, Sang Woo ^a   Kol, Stefan ^a   Sommer, Morten O A ^a  

^a Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

anti CRISPR; Cas9 inhibitor; CRISPR; functional metagenomics; genetic circuit

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; ENZYME INHIBITOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BALNEOLAEOTA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM; CYANOBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; GENE LIBRARY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHETE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; GENETIC SCREENING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES;

CRISPR-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 9; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TESTING; METAGENOMICS;

EID: 85060887760     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: 19346069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2019.01.003     Document Type: Article

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