Interference-driven spacer acquisition is dominant over naive and primed adaptation in a native CRISPR–Cas system

Prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas systems provide adaptive immunity against foreign nucleic acids by acquiring short, invader-derived sequences called spacers. Here, Staals et al. analyse millions of such events in a native CRISPR-Cas system, showing that newly acquired spacers provoke additional rounds of spa...

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Auteurs principaux: Raymond H. J. Staals, Simon A. Jackson, Ambarish Biswas, Stan J. J. Brouns, Chris M. Brown, Peter C. Fineran
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Publié: Nature Portfolio 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/2b405c24d7584a81b02d85c2c41648d7
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