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Cleavage of phage DNA by the Streptococcus thermophilus CRISPR3-Cas system.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Magadán Alfonso H, Dupuis Marie-Ève, Villion Manuela, Moineau Sylvain
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus thermophilus, similar to other Bacteria and Archaea, has developed defense mechanisms to protect cells against invasion by foreign nucleic acids, such as virus infections and plasmid transformations. One defense system recently described in these organisms is the CRISPR-Cas system (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats loci coupled to CRISPR-associated genes). Two S. thermophilus...
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