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 …

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 …

Unconstrained genome targeting with near-PAMless engineered CRISPR-Cas9 variants

RT Walton, KA Christie, MN Whittaker, BP Kleinstiver - Science, 2020 - science.org
Manipulation of DNA by CRISPR-Cas enzymes requires the recognition of a protospacer-
adjacent motif (PAM), limiting target site recognition to a subset of sequences. To remove …

Origins and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

EV Koonin, KS Makarova - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
CRISPR-Cas, the bacterial and archaeal adaptive immunity systems, encompass a complex
machinery that integrates fragments of foreign nucleic acids, mostly from mobile genetic …

C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector

OO Abudayyeh, JS Gootenberg, S Konermann… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Almost all archaea and about half of bacteria possess clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated genes (Cas) adaptive …

An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

KS Makarova, YI Wolf, OS Alkhnbashi… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The evolution of CRISPR–cas loci, which encode adaptive immune systems in archaea and
bacteria, involves rapid changes, in particular numerous rearrangements of the locus …

CRISPR–Cas9 structures and mechanisms

F Jiang, JA Doudna - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Many bacterial clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–
CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems employ the dual RNA–guided DNA endonuclease Cas9 …

[HTML][HTML] Biology and applications of CRISPR systems: harnessing nature's toolbox for genome engineering

AV Wright, JK Nuñez, JA Doudna - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Bacteria and archaea possess a range of defense mechanisms to combat plasmids and viral
infections. Unique among these are the CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short …

Diverse evolutionary roots and mechanistic variations of the CRISPR-Cas systems

P Mohanraju, KS Makarova, B Zetsche, F Zhang… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Prokaryotes have evolved multiple systems to combat invaders such as
viruses and plasmids. Examples of such defense systems include receptor masking …

CRISPR-Cas immunity in prokaryotes

LA Marraffini - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Prokaryotic organisms are threatened by a large array of viruses and have developed
numerous defence strategies. Among these, only clustered, regularly interspaced short …