Publication Date:
2015-04-17
Description:
Nature Reviews Microbiology 13, 251 (2015). doi:10.1038/nrmicro3483 Author: Andrea Du Toit The CRISPR–Cas system is an archaeal and bacterial adaptive immune system that provides sequence-specific defence against foreign nucleic acids. Whereas type I and type II systems recognize and cleave double-stranded DNA, the type III complex (known as Cmr) targets single-stranded RNA (ssRNA), and comprises six
Print ISSN:
1740-1526
Electronic ISSN:
1740-1534
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine