Controlling and enhancing CRISPR systems

H Shivram, BF Cress, GJ Knott, JA Doudna - Nature chemical biology, 2021 - nature.com
Many bacterial and archaeal organisms use clustered regularly interspaced short
palindromic repeats–CRISPR associated (CRISPR–Cas) systems to defend themselves …

Structure-based functional mechanisms and biotechnology applications of anti-CRISPR proteins

N Jia, DJ Patel - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR loci and Cas proteins provide adaptive immunity in prokaryotes against invading
bacteriophages and plasmids. In response, bacteriophages have evolved a broad spectrum …

Broad-spectrum CRISPR-Cas13a enables efficient phage genome editing

BA Adler, T Hessler, BF Cress, A Lahiri, VK Mutalik… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas13 proteins are RNA-guided RNA nucleases that defend against incoming
RNA and DNA phages by binding to complementary target phage transcripts followed by …

RNA targeting unleashes indiscriminate nuclease activity of CRISPR–Cas12a2

JPK Bravo, T Hallmark, B Naegle, CL Beisel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cas12a2 is a CRISPR-associated nuclease that performs RNA-guided, sequence-
nonspecific degradation of single-stranded RNA, single-stranded DNA and double-stranded …

Anti-CRISPRs: protein inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas systems

AR Davidson, WT Lu, SY Stanley… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) together with their
accompanying cas (CRISPR-associated) genes are found frequently in bacteria and …

AcrIIC4 inhibits type II-C Cas9 by preventing R-loop formation

W Sun, Z Cheng, J Wang, J Yang, X Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins are encoded by phages and other mobile genetic elements and
inhibit host CRISPR-Cas immunity using versatile strategies. AcrIIC4 is a broad-spectrum …

[HTML][HTML] A naturally DNase-free CRISPR-Cas12c enzyme silences gene expression

CJ Huang, BA Adler, JA Doudna - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Used widely for genome editing, CRISPR-Cas enzymes provide RNA-guided immunity to
microbes by targeting foreign nucleic acids for cleavage. We show here that the native …

Novel bacterial clade reveals origin of form I Rubisco

DM Banda, JH Pereira, AK Liu, DJ Orr, M Hammel… - Nature plants, 2020 - nature.com
Rubisco sustains the biosphere through the fixation of CO2 into biomass. In plants and
cyanobacteria, form I Rubisco is structurally comprised of large and small subunits, whereas …

Machine learning predicts new anti-CRISPR proteins

S Eitzinger, A Asif, KE Watters, AT Iavarone… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The increasing use of CRISPR–Cas9 in medicine, agriculture, and synthetic biology has
accelerated the drive to discover new CRISPR–Cas inhibitors as potential mechanisms of …

Structures and strategies of anti-CRISPR-mediated immune suppression

T Wiegand, S Karambelkar… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
More than 50 protein families have been identified that inhibit CRISPR (clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas-mediated adaptive immune systems. Here, we …