The small, slow and specialized CRISPR and anti-CRISPR of Escherichia and Salmonella.
Prokaryotes thrive in spite of the vast number and diversity of their viruses. This partly results from the evolution of mechanisms to inactivate or silence the action of exogenous DNA. Among these, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) are unique in providing adaptive i...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-06-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20559554/pdf/?tool=EBI |