Microbial biofilm: a review on formation, infection, antibiotic resistance, control measures, and innovative treatment

S Sharma, J Mohler, SD Mahajan, SA Schwartz… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biofilm is complex and consists of bacterial colonies that reside in an exopolysaccharide
matrix that attaches to foreign surfaces in a living organism. Biofilm frequently leads to …

Antimicrobial stewardship: fighting antimicrobial resistance and protecting global public health

MAA Majumder, S Rahman, D Cohall… - Infection and drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health. It increases
morbidity and mortality, and is associated with high economic costs due to its health care …

CRISPR technologies and the search for the PAM-free nuclease

D Collias, CL Beisel - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
The ever-expanding set of CRISPR technologies and their programmable RNA-guided
nucleases exhibit remarkable flexibility in DNA targeting. However, this flexibility comes with …

The pan-immune system of bacteria: antiviral defence as a community resource

A Bernheim, R Sorek - Nature reviews microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Viruses and their hosts are engaged in a constant arms race leading to the evolution of
antiviral defence mechanisms. Recent studies have revealed that the immune arsenal of …

The biology of CRISPR-Cas: backward and forward

F Hille, H Richter, SP Wong, M Bratovič, S Ressel… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
In bacteria and archaea, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
(CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins constitute an adaptive immune system …

Targeted nucleotide editing using hybrid prokaryotic and vertebrate adaptive immune systems

K Nishida, T Arazoe, N Yachie, S Banno, M Kakimoto… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION To combat invading pathogens, cells develop an adaptive immune
response by changing their own genetic information. In vertebrates, the generation of …

CRISPR-Cas: biology, mechanisms and relevance

F Hille, E Charpentier - … of the royal society B: biological …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Prokaryotes have evolved several defence mechanisms to protect themselves from viral
predators. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and their …

A compact Cascade–Cas3 system for targeted genome engineering

B Csörgő, LM León, IJ Chau-Ly, A Vasquez-Rifo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas technologies have enabled programmable gene editing in eukaryotes and
prokaryotes. However, the leading Cas9 and Cas12a enzymes are limited in their ability to …

[HTML][HTML] The CRISPR-Cas immune system: biology, mechanisms and applications

D Rath, L Amlinger, A Rath, M Lundgren - Biochimie, 2015 - Elsevier
Viruses are a common threat to cellular life, not the least to bacteria and archaea who
constitute the majority of life on Earth. Consequently, a variety of mechanisms to resist virus …

CRISPR-Cas: adapting to change

SA Jackson, RE McKenzie, RD Fagerlund, SN Kieper… - Science, 2017 - science.org
BACKGROUND The arms race between prokaryotes and their perpetually evolving
predators has fueled the evolution of a defense arsenal. The so-called CRISPR-Cas …