A dynamic subpopulation of CRISPR-Cas overexpressers allows Streptococcus pyogenes to rapidly respond to phage.

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Many CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein) systems, which provide bacteria with adaptive immunity against phages, are transcriptionally repressed in their native hosts. How CRISPR-Cas expression is induced as needed, for example, during a bacteriophage infection, remains poorly understood. In Streptococcus pyogenes, a non-canonical guide RNA tracr-L...

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