Anti-CRISPR protein applications: natural brakes for CRISPR-Cas technologies

ND Marino, R Pinilla-Redondo, B Csörgő… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-
associated (Cas) genes, a diverse family of prokaryotic adaptive immune systems, have …

Inhibitors of bacterial immune systems: discovery, mechanisms and applications

D Mayo-Muñoz, R Pinilla-Redondo… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
To contend with the diversity and ubiquity of bacteriophages and other mobile genetic
elements, bacteria have developed an arsenal of immune defence mechanisms. Bacterial …

CRISPR-Cas3 induces broad and unidirectional genome editing in human cells

H Morisaka, K Yoshimi, Y Okuzaki, P Gee… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Although single-component Class 2 CRISPR systems, such as type II Cas9 or type V
Cas12a (Cpf1), are widely used for genome editing in eukaryotic cells, the application of …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-CRISPR phages cooperate to overcome CRISPR-Cas immunity

M Landsberger, S Gandon, S Meaden, C Rollie… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Some phages encode anti-CRISPR (acr) genes, which antagonize bacterial CRISPR-Cas
immune systems by binding components of its machinery, but it is less clear how …

Anti-CRISPRs: protein inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas systems

AR Davidson, WT Lu, SY Stanley… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) together with their
accompanying cas (CRISPR-associated) genes are found frequently in bacteria and …

Anti-CRISPR-associated proteins are crucial repressors of anti-CRISPR transcription

SY Stanley, AL Borges, KH Chen, DL Swaney… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Phages express anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins to inhibit CRISPR-Cas systems that would
otherwise destroy their genomes. Most acr genes are located adjacent to anti-CRISPR …

Phage-encoded anti-CRISPR defenses

SY Stanley, KL Maxwell - Annual review of genetics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The battle for survival between bacteria and bacteriophages (phages) is an arms race where
bacteria develop defenses to protect themselves from phages and phages evolve …

The diverse impacts of phage morons on bacterial fitness and virulence

VL Taylor, AD Fitzpatrick, Z Islam, KL Maxwell - Advances in virus research, 2019 - Elsevier
The viruses that infect bacteria, known as phages, are the most abundant biological entity on
earth. They play critical roles in controlling bacterial populations through phage-mediated …

Chemistry of Class 1 CRISPR-Cas effectors: Binding, editing, and regulation

TY Liu, JA Doudna - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
Among the multiple antiviral defense mechanisms found in prokaryotes, CRISPR-Cas
systems stand out as the only known RNA-programmed pathways for detecting and …

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 …