Enhanced integration of large DNA into E. coli chromosome by CRISPR/Cas9

ME Chung, IH Yeh, LY Sung, MY Wu… - Biotechnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Metabolic engineering often necessitates chromosomal integration of multiple genes but
integration of large genes into Escherichia coli remains difficult. CRISPR/Cas9 is an RNA …

CRISPR-Cas systems and the paradox of self-targeting spacers

F Wimmer, CL Beisel - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
CRISPR-Cas immune systems in bacteria and archaea record prior infections as spacers
within each system's CRISPR arrays. Spacers are normally derived from invasive genetic …

It is unclear how important CRISPR-Cas systems are for protecting natural populations of bacteria against infections by mobile genetic elements

ER Westra, BR Levin - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Articles on CRISPR commonly open with some variant of the phrase “these short
palindromic repeats and their associated endonucleases (Cas) are an adaptive immune …

Inhibition of NHEJ repair by type II-A CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria

A Bernheim, A Calvo-Villamañán, C Basier… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Type II CRISPR-Cas systems introduce double-strand breaks into DNA of invading
genetic material and use DNA fragments to acquire novel spacers during adaptation. These …

Targeted-antibacterial-plasmids (TAPs) combining conjugation and CRISPR/Cas systems achieve strain-specific antibacterial activity

A Reuter, C Hilpert, A Dedieu-Berne… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The global emergence of drug-resistant bacteria leads to the loss of efficacy of our
antibiotics arsenal and severely limits the success of currently available treatments. Here …

Exploiting a conjugative CRISPR/Cas9 system to eliminate plasmid harbouring the mcr-1 gene from Escherichia coli

H Dong, H Xiang, D Mu, D Wang, T Wang - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The transfer of multi-drug-resistance plasmids by bacterial conjugation is largely responsible
for the development of drug resistance in bacteria, and causes serious problems in the …

Improved sgRNA design in bacteria via genome-wide activity profiling

J Guo, T Wang, C Guan, B Liu, C Luo, Z Xie… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR/Cas9 is a promising tool in prokaryotic genome engineering, but its success is
limited by the widely varying on-target activity of single guide RNAs (sgRNAs). Based on the …

NT-CRISPR, combining natural transformation and CRISPR-Cas9 counterselection for markerless and scarless genome editing in Vibrio natriegens

D Stukenberg, J Hoff, A Faber, A Becker - Communications Biology, 2022 - nature.com
The fast-growing bacterium Vibrio natriegens has recently gained increasing attention as a
novel chassis organism for fundamental research and biotechnology. To fully harness the …

Gene silencing with CRISPRi in bacteria and optimization of dCas9 expression levels

F Depardieu, D Bikard - Methods, 2020 - Elsevier
The catalytic null mutant of the Cas9 endonuclease from the bacterial CRISPR immune
system, known as dCas9, can be guided by a small RNA to bind DNA sequences of interest …

Discovery and characterization of Cas9 inhibitors disseminated across seven bacterial phyla

RV Uribe, E van der Helm, MA Misiakou, SW Lee… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria and archaea provide immunity against bacteriophages
and plasmids. To overcome CRISPR immunity, phages have acquired anti-CRISPR genes …