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Diversity, evolution, and therapeutic applications of small RNAs in prokaryotic and eukaryotic immune systems.
Physics of life reviews - 1 Mar 2014
Cooper Edwin L, Overstreet Nicola
Abstract excerpt
Recent evidence supports that prokaryotes exhibit adaptive immunity in the form of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats) and Cas (CRISPR associated proteins). The CRISPR-Cas system confers resistance to exogenous genetic elements such as phages and plasmids by allowing for the recognition and silencing of these genetic elements. Moreover, CRISPR-Cas serves as a memory of past...
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