Candidate Phyla Radiation Roizmanbacteria From Hot Springs Have Novel and Unexpectedly Abundant CRISPR-Cas Systems

The Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) comprises a huge group of bacteria that have small genomes that rarely encode CRISPR-Cas systems for phage defense. Consequently, questions remain about their mechanisms of phage resistance and the nature of phage that infect them. The compact CRISPR-CasY system (...

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Main Authors: Lin-Xing Chen, Basem Al-Shayeb, Raphaël Méheust, Wen-Jun Li, Jennifer A. Doudna, Jillian F. Banfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
CPR
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00928/full