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Inhibition Mechanism of an Anti-CRISPR Suppressor AcrIIA4 Targeting SpyCas9.
Molecular cell - 6 Jul 2017
Yang Hui, Patel Dinshaw J
Abstract excerpt
Prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems utilize sequence-specific RNA-guided endonucleases to defend against infection by viruses, bacteriophages, and mobile elements, while these foreign genetic elements evolve diverse anti-CRISPR proteins to overcome the CRISPR-Cas-mediated defense of the host. Recently, AcrIIA2 and AcrIIA4, encoded by Listeria monocytogene prophages, were shown to block the endonuclease...
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