Structural biology of CRISPR–Cas immunity and genome editing enzymes

JY Wang, P Pausch, JA Doudna - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide resistance against foreign mobile genetic elements and have
a wide range of genome editing and biotechnological applications. In this Review, we …

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 …

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 …

Multiplex recording of cellular events over time on CRISPR biological tape

RU Sheth, SS Yim, FL Wu, HH Wang - Science, 2017 - science.org
Although dynamics underlie many biological processes, our ability to robustly and
accurately profile time-varying biological signals and regulatory programs remains limited …

DNA-based memory devices for recording cellular events

RU Sheth, HH Wang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Measuring biological data across time and space is critical for understanding complex
biological processes and for various biosurveillance applications. However, such data are …

Robust direct digital-to-biological data storage in living cells

SS Yim, RM McBee, AM Song, Y Huang… - Nature Chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA has been the predominant information storage medium for biology and holds great
promise as a next-generation high-density data medium in the digital era. Currently, the vast …

[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 …

CRISPR/Cas-based modifications for therapeutic applications: a review

N Bharathkumar, A Sunil, P Meera, S Aksah… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
The CRISPR–Cas genome editing system is an intrinsic property of a bacteria-based
immune system. This employs a guide RNA to detect and cleave the PAM-associated target …

CRISPR–Cas systems exploit viral DNA injection to establish and maintain adaptive immunity

JW Modell, W Jiang, LA Marraffini - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–Cas systems provide
protection against viral and plasmid infection by capturing short DNA sequences from these …

Cleavage of viral DNA by restriction endonucleases stimulates the type II CRISPR-Cas immune response

P Maguin, A Varble, JW Modell, LA Marraffini - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Prokaryotic organisms have developed multiple defense systems against phages; however,
little is known about whether and how these interact with each other. Here, we studied the …