Programming Native CRISPR Arrays for the Generation of Targeted Immunity

The adaptive immune system of prokaryotes, called CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated genes), results in specific cleavage of invading nucleic acid sequences recognized by the cell’s “memory” of past encounters. Here, we exploited the propertie...

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Main Authors: Alexander P. Hynes, Simon J. Labrie, Sylvain Moineau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2016-05-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/7/3/e00202-16