Heavily Armed Ancestors: CRISPR Immunity and Applications in Archaea with a Comparative Analysis of CRISPR Types in Sulfolobales

Prokaryotes are constantly coping with attacks by viruses in their natural environments and therefore have evolved an impressive array of defense systems. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) is an adaptive immune system found in the majority of archaea and about half o...

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Main Authors: Isabelle Anna Zink, Erika Wimmer, Christa Schleper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-11-01
Series:Biomolecules
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/10/11/1523