CRISPR technology: A decade of genome editing is only the beginning

JY Wang, JA Doudna - Science, 2023 - science.org
The advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) genome
editing, coupled with advances in computing and imaging capabilities, has initiated a new …

Structural biology of CRISPR–Cas immunity and genome editing enzymes

JY Wang, P Pausch, JA Doudna - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas systems provide resistance against foreign mobile genetic elements and have
a wide range of genome editing and biotechnological applications. In this Review, we …

Evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants

KS Makarova, YI Wolf, J Iranzo, SA Shmakov… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The number and diversity of known CRISPR–Cas systems have substantially increased in
recent years. Here, we provide an updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas …

Bacterial defences: mechanisms, evolution and antimicrobial resistance

WPJ Smith, BR Wucher, CD Nadell… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Throughout their evolutionary history, bacteria have faced diverse threats from other
microorganisms, including competing bacteria, bacteriophages and predators. In response …

The arms race between bacteria and their phage foes

HG Hampton, BNJ Watson, PC Fineran - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Bacteria are under immense evolutionary pressure from their viral invaders—
bacteriophages. Bacteria have evolved numerous immune mechanisms, both innate and …

Mechanisms and clinical importance of bacteriophage resistance

JE Egido, AR Costa… - FEMS microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We are in the midst of a golden age of uncovering defense systems against bacteriophages.
Apart from the fundamental interest in these defense systems, and revolutionary applications …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies to overcome the main challenges of the use of CRISPR/Cas9 as a replacement for cancer therapy

MF Rasul, BM Hussen, A Salihi, BS Ismael, PJ Jalal… - Molecular Cancer, 2022 - Springer
CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-associated protein
9) shows the opportunity to treat a diverse array of untreated various genetic and …

A rooted phylogeny resolves early bacterial evolution

GA Coleman, AA Davín, TA Mahendrarajah… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Bacteria are the most diverse and abundant cellular organisms on Earth,
and in recent years environmental genomics has revealed the existence of an enormous …

[PDF][PDF] CRISPR-Cas tools and their application in genetic engineering of human stem cells and organoids

D Hendriks, H Clevers, B Artegiani - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas technology has revolutionized biological research and holds great therapeutic
potential. Here, we review CRISPR-Cas systems and their latest developments with an …

CRISPR-Cas for genome editing: Classification, mechanism, designing and applications

S Bhatia, SK Yadav - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Clustered regularly interspersed short pallindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR
associated proteins (Cas) system (CRISPR-Cas) came into light as prokaryotic defence …