Classification and evolution of type II CRISPR-Cas systems

The CRISPR-Cas systems of archaeal and bacterial adaptive immunity are classified into three types that differ by the repertoires of CRISPR-associated (cas) genes, the organization of cas operons and the structure of repeats in the CRISPR arrays. The simplest among the CRISPR-Cas systems is type II...

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Main Authors: Chylinski, Krzysztof, Makarova, Kira S., Charpentier, Emmanuelle, Koonin, Eugene V.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041416/