Evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants

KS Makarova, YI Wolf, J Iranzo, SA Shmakov… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The number and diversity of known CRISPR–Cas systems have substantially increased in
recent years. Here, we provide an updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas …

The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9

JA Doudna, E Charpentier - Science, 2014 - science.org
Background Technologies for making and manipulating DNA have enabled advances in
biology ever since the discovery of the DNA double helix. But introducing site-specific …

An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

KS Makarova, YI Wolf, OS Alkhnbashi… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The evolution of CRISPR–cas loci, which encode adaptive immune systems in archaea and
bacteria, involves rapid changes, in particular numerous rearrangements of the locus …

Diversity, classification and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

EV Koonin, KS Makarova, F Zhang - Current opinion in microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Two classes of CRISPR-Cas systems differ by the architectures of effector
modules.•Effectors of Class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems are large, multidomain proteins.•Effector …

A programmable dual-RNA–guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity

M **ek, K Chylinski, I Fonfara, M Hauer, JA Doudna… - science, 2012 - science.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
(Cas) systems provide bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against viruses and …

RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems

W Jiang, D Bikard, D Cox, F Zhang… - Nature biotechnology, 2013 - nature.com
Here we use the clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–
associated Cas9 endonuclease complexed with dual-RNAs to introduce precise mutations …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery and functional characterization of diverse class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems

S Shmakov, OO Abudayyeh, KS Makarova, YI Wolf… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Microbial CRISPR-Cas systems are divided into Class 1, with multisubunit effector
complexes, and Class 2, with single protein effectors. Currently, only two Class 2 effectors …

Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems

S Shmakov, A Smargon, D Scott, D Cox… - Nature reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems are characterized by effector modules that consist of a single
multidomain protein, such as Cas9 or Cpf1. We designed a computational pipeline for the …

[HTML][HTML] Development and applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for genome engineering

PD Hsu, ES Lander, F Zhang - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Recent advances in genome engineering technologies based on the CRISPR-associated
RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9 are enabling the systematic interrogation of mammalian …

[HTML][HTML] Biology and applications of CRISPR systems: harnessing nature's toolbox for genome engineering

AV Wright, JK Nuñez, JA Doudna - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Bacteria and archaea possess a range of defense mechanisms to combat plasmids and viral
infections. Unique among these are the CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short …