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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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Biomolecules |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/10/11/1523 |