The CRISPR Spacer Space Is Dominated by Sequences from Species-Specific Mobilomes

The CRISPR Spacer Space Is Dominated by Sequences from Species-Specific Mobilomes

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein (CRISPR-Cas) systems store the memory of past encounters with foreign DNA in unique spacers that are inserted between direct repeats in CRISPR arrays. For only a small fraction of the spacers, homologous sequence...

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Main Authors: Sergey A. Shmakov, Vassilii Sitnik, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Konstantin V. Severinov, Eugene V. Koonin, Michael S. Gilmore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017-09-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/5/e01397-17

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