The biology of CRISPR-Cas: backward and forward

F Hille, H Richter, SP Wong, M Bratovič, S Ressel… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
In bacteria and archaea, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
(CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins constitute an adaptive immune system …

Origins and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

EV Koonin, KS Makarova - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
CRISPR-Cas, the bacterial and archaeal adaptive immunity systems, encompass a complex
machinery that integrates fragments of foreign nucleic acids, mostly from mobile genetic …

PAM identification by CRISPR-Cas effector complexes: diversified mechanisms and structures

D Gleditzsch, P Pausch, H Müller-Esparza, A Özcan… - RNA biology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Adaptive immunity of prokaryotes is mediated by CRISPR-Cas systems that employ a large
variety of Cas protein effectors to identify and destroy foreign genetic material. The different …

Molecular mechanisms of CRISPR–Cas spacer acquisition

J McGinn, LA Marraffini - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Many bacteria and archaea have the unique ability to heritably alter their genomes by
incorporating small fragments of foreign DNA, called spacers, into CRISPR loci. Once …

Molecular mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas immunity in bacteria

PM Nussenzweig, LA Marraffini - Annual review of genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Prokaryotes have developed numerous defense strategies to combat the constant threat
posed by the diverse genetic parasites that endanger them. Clustered regularly interspaced …

Efficient and robust proteome-wide approaches for cross-linking mass spectrometry

O Klykov, B Steigenberger, S Pektaş, D Fasci… - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
Cross-linking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) has received considerable interest, owing to its
potential to investigate protein–protein interactions (PPIs) in an unbiased fashion in complex …

Transcriptional recording by CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA

F Schmidt, MY Cherepkova, RJ Platt - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The ability to record transcriptional events within a cell over time would help to elucidate
how molecular events give rise to complex cellular behaviours and states. However, current …

[PDF][PDF] Mobile genetic elements and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems: all the way there and back

EV Koonin, KS Makarova - Genome biology and evolution, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-
associated proteins (Cas) systems of bacterial and archaeal adaptive immunity show …

PhoX: an IMAC-enrichable cross-linking reagent

B Steigenberger, RJ Pieters, AJR Heck… - ACS central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Chemical cross-linking mass spectrometry is rapidly emerging as a prominent technique to
study protein structures. Structural information is obtained by covalently connecting peptides …

Novel molecular requirements for CRISPR RNA-guided transposition

MWG Walker, SE Klompe, DJ Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR-associated transposases (CASTs) direct DNA integration downstream of target
sites using the RNA-guided DNA binding activity of nuclease-deficient CRISPR-Cas …