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The CRISPR-Cas immune system: biology, mechanisms and applications.
Biochimie - 1 Oct 2015
Rath Devashish, Amlinger Lina, Rath Archana, Lundgren Magnus
Abstract excerpt
Viruses are a common threat to cellular life, not the least to bacteria and archaea who constitute the majority of life on Earth. Consequently, a variety of mechanisms to resist virus infection has evolved. A recent discovery is the adaptive immune system in prokaryotes, a type of system previously thought to be present only in vertebrates. The system, called CRISPR-Cas, provide sequence-specific adaptive...
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