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Analysis of CRISPR system function in plant pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jul 2009
Semenova Ekaterina, Nagornykh Maxim, Pyatnitskiy Mikhail, Artamonova Irena I, Severinov Konstantin
Abstract excerpt
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) is a bacterial immunity system that requires a perfect sequence match between the CRISPR cassette spacer and a protospacer in invading DNA for exclusion of foreign genetic elements. CRISPR cassettes are hypervariable, possibly reflecting different exposure of strains of the same species to foreign genetic elements. Here, we determined CRISPR...
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