Inhibitors of bacterial immune systems: discovery, mechanisms and applications

D Mayo-Muñoz, R Pinilla-Redondo… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
To contend with the diversity and ubiquity of bacteriophages and other mobile genetic
elements, bacteria have developed an arsenal of immune defence mechanisms. Bacterial …

Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies

M Pacesa, O Pelea, M **ek - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Genome editing has been a transformative force in the life sciences and human medicine,
offering unprecedented opportunities to dissect complex biological processes and treat the …

Biology and applications of CRISPR–Cas12 and transposon-associated homologs

WY Wu, B Adiego-Pérez, J van der Oost - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
CRISPR-associated Cas12 proteins are a highly variable collection of nucleic acid-targeting
proteins. All Cas12 variants use RNA guides and a single nuclease domain to target …

Structural variation of types IV-A1-and IV-A3-mediated CRISPR interference

R Čepaitė, N Klein, A Mikšys, S Camara-Wilpert… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas mediated DNA-interference typically relies on sequence-specific binding and
nucleolytic degradation of foreign genetic material. Type IV-A CRISPR-Cas systems diverge …

Structural basis for the activity of the type VII CRISPR–Cas system

J Yang, X Li, Q He, X Wang, J Tang, T Wang, Y Zhang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The newly identified type VII CRISPR–Cas candidate system uses a CRISPR RNA-guided
ribonucleoprotein complex formed by Cas5 and Cas7 proteins to target RNA. However, the …

Discovering CRISPR-Cas system with self-processing pre-crRNA capability by foundation models

W Li, X Jiang, W Wang, L Hou, R Cai, Y Li, Q Gu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The discovery of CRISPR-Cas systems has paved the way for advanced gene editing tools.
However, traditional Cas discovery methods relying on sequence similarity may miss distant …

Strategic nucleic acid detection approaches for diagnosing African swine fever (ASF): navigating disease dynamics

Y Zhu, M Zhang, Z Jie, S Guo, Z Zhu, S Tao - Veterinary Research, 2024 - Springer
African swine fever (ASF) is a devastating disease caused by African swine fever virus
(ASFV) and leads to significant economic losses in the pig farming industry. Given the …

Rapid and sensitive protein complex alignment with foldseek-multimer

W Kim, M Mirdita, EL Karin, CLM Gilchrist, H Schweke… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Advances in computational structure prediction will vastly augment the hundreds of
thousands of currently-available protein complex structures. Translating these into …

Engineered minimal type I CRISPR-Cas system for transcriptional activation and base editing in human cells

J Guo, L Gong, H Yu, M Li, Q An, Z Liu, S Fan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Type I CRISPR-Cas systems are widespread and have exhibited high versatility
and efficiency in genome editing and gene regulation in prokaryotes. However, due to the …

CRISPR in mobile genetic elements: counter-defense, inter-element competition and RNA-guided transposition

EV Koonin, KS Makarova - BMC biology, 2024 - Springer
CRISPR are adaptive immunity systems that protect bacteria and archaea from viruses and
other mobile genetic elements (MGE) via an RNA-guided interference mechanism …