CRISPR-Cas biology and its application to infectious diseases

JR Strich, DS Chertow - Journal of clinical microbiology, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Infectious diseases remain a global threat contributing to excess morbidity and death
annually, with the persistent potential for destabilizing pandemics. Improved understanding …

CRISPR/Cas9—The ultimate weapon to battle infectious diseases?

M Doerflinger, W Forsyth, G Ebert… - Cellular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide. Novel therapeutics are urgently
required to treat multidrug‐resistant organisms such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and to …

The application of the CRISPR-Cas system in antibiotic resistance

S Tao, H Chen, N Li, W Liang - Infection and drug resistance, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence and global epidemic of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a serious
threat to global public health in recent years. AMR genes are shared between bacterial …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing the CRISPR-Cas systems to combat antimicrobial resistance

C Duan, H Cao, LH Zhang, Z Xu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) bacteria has become one of the most
serious threats to global health, necessitating the development of novel antimicrobial …

CRISPR-Cas bioinformatics

OS Alkhnbashi, T Meier, A Mitrofanov, R Backofen… - Methods, 2020 - Elsevier
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and their associated
proteins (Cas) are essential genetic elements in many archaeal and bacterial genomes …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-based antimicrobials to obstruct antibiotic-resistant and pathogenic bacteria

D Palacios Araya, KL Palmer, BA Duerkop - PLoS Pathogens, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The rapid emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the comparatively limited
development of new antibacterial molecules pose a major threat to modern medicine by …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR‐Cas9: how research on a bacterial RNA‐guided mechanism opened new perspectives in biotechnology and biomedicine

E Charpentier - EMBO molecular medicine, 2015 - embopress.org
CRISPR-Cas9 emerged as a powerful and universal technology for genome engineering
with wide-ranging innovative implications across biology and medicine. The technology is …

CRISPR-Cas9 technology: applications in genome engineering, development of sequence-specific antimicrobials, and future prospects

C de la Fuente-Núñez, TK Lu - Integrative Biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The development of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized our ability to edit DNA
and to modulate expression levels of genes of interest, thus providing powerful tools to …

CRISPR-Cas: new tools for genetic manipulations from bacterial immunity systems

W Jiang, LA Marraffini - Annual review of microbiology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas loci encode proteins that function as an adaptive immune system
against infectious viruses and plasmids. Immunity is mediated by Cas nucleases and small …

On the origin of CRISPR-Cas technology: from prokaryotes to mammals

FJM Mojica, L Montoliu - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) sequences cooperate
with CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins to form the basis of CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune …