Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems

S Shmakov, A Smargon, D Scott, D Cox… - Nature reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems are characterized by effector modules that consist of a single
multidomain protein, such as Cas9 or Cpf1. We designed a computational pipeline for the …

RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea

B Wiedenheft, SH Sternberg, JA Doudna - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) are essential
components of nucleic-acid-based adaptive immune systems that are widespread in …

IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata

AP Camargo, S Nayfach, IMA Chen… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Viruses are widely recognized as critical members of all microbiomes. Metagenomics
enables large-scale exploration of the global virosphere, progressively revealing the …

iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria

S Roux, AP Camargo, FH Coutinho, SM Dabdoub… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The extraordinary diversity of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea is now primarily studied
through metagenomics. While metagenomes enable high-throughput exploration of the viral …

Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome

S Nayfach, D Páez-Espino, L Call, SJ Low… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bacteriophages have important roles in the ecology of the human gut microbiome but are
under-represented in reference databases. To address this problem, we assembled the …

A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes

S Nayfach, S Roux, R Seshadri, D Udwary… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The reconstruction of bacterial and archaeal genomes from shotgun metagenomes has
enabled insights into the ecology and evolution of environmental and host-associated …

Programmable RNA targeting with the single-protein CRISPR effector Cas7-11

A Özcan, R Krajeski, E Ioannidi, B Lee, A Gardner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas interference is mediated by Cas effector nucleases that are either components
of multisubunit complexes—in class 1 CRISPR–Cas systems—or domains of a single …

Programmable RNA editing with compact CRISPR–Cas13 systems from uncultivated microbes

C Xu, Y Zhou, Q Xiao, B He, G Geng, Z Wang, B Cao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Competitive coevolution between microbes and viruses has led to the diversification of
CRISPR–Cas defense systems against infectious agents. By analyzing metagenomic …

Uncovering the functional diversity of rare CRISPR-Cas systems with deep terascale clustering

H Altae-Tran, S Kannan, AJ Suberski, KS Mears… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Microbial systems underpin many biotechnologies, including CRISPR, but the exponential
growth of sequence databases makes it difficult to find previously unidentified systems. In …

The human gut virome is highly diverse, stable, and individual specific

AN Shkoporov, AG Clooney, TDS Sutton, FJ Ryan… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
The human gut contains a vast array of viruses, mostly bacteriophages. The majority remain
uncharacterized, and their roles in shaping the gut microbiome and in impacting on human …