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The CRISPR-Cas system in Enterobacteriaceae.
Pathogens and disease - 1 Feb 2018
Medina-Aparicio Liliana, Dávila Sonia, Rebollar-Flores Javier E, Calva Edmundo, Hernández-Lucas Ismael
Abstract excerpt
In nature, microorganisms are constantly exposed to multiple viral infections and thus have developed many strategies to survive phage attack and invasion by foreign DNA. One of such strategies is the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated proteins (Cas) bacterial immunological system. This defense mechanism is widespread in prokaryotes including several families such...
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