CRISPR-Cas Immunity against Phages: Its Effects on the Evolution and Survival of Bacterial Pathogens

Processing-Independent CRISPR RNAs Limit Natural Transformation in Neisseria meningitidis

(2013) Yan Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Erratum: Corrigendum: A CRISPR/Cas system mediates bacterial innate immune evasion and virulence

(2013) Timothy R. Sampson et al.   NATURE

A CRISPR/Cas system mediates bacterial innate immune evasion and virulence

(2013) Timothy R. Sampson et al.   NATURE

RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems

(2013) Wenyan Jiang et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

The CRISPR-Associated Gene cas2 of Legionella pneumophila Is Required for Intracellular Infection of Amoebae

(2013) F. F. Gunderson et al.   mBio

Dealing with the Evolutionary Downside of CRISPR Immunity: Bacteria and Beneficial Plasmids

(2013) Wenyan Jiang et al.   PLoS Genetics

The CRISPRs, They Are A-Changin': How Prokaryotes Generate Adaptive Immunity

(2012) Edze R. Westra et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

CRISPR Interference Can Prevent Natural Transformation and Virulence Acquisition during In Vivo Bacterial Infection

(2012) David Bikard et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Repression of bacterial lipoprotein production byFrancisella novicidafacilitates evasion of innate immune recognition

(2012) Crystal L. Jones et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A novel link between Campylobacter jejuni bacteriophage defence, virulence and Guillain–Barré syndrome

(2012) R. Louwen et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The CRISPR/Cas Adaptive Immune System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mediates Resistance to Naturally Occurring and Engineered Phages

(2012) K. C. Cady et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

An Archaeal Immune System Can Detect Multiple Protospacer Adjacent Motifs (PAMs) to Target Invader DNA

(2012) Susan Fischer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Antibiotic resistance plasmids spread among natural isolates of Escherichia coli in spite of CRISPR elements

(2012)   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

CRISPR Immunity Relies on the Consecutive Binding and Degradation of Negatively Supercoiled Invader DNA by Cascade and Cas3

(2012) Edze R. Westra et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The highly dynamic CRISPR1 system ofStreptococcus agalactiaecontrols the diversity of its mobilome

(2012) Maria-José Lopez-Sanchez et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Selective and hyperactive uptake of foreign DNA by adaptive immune systems of an archaeon via two distinct mechanisms

(2012) Susanne Erdmann et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteriophage genes that inactivate the CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system

(2012) Joe Bondy-Denomy et al.   NATURE

RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea

(2012) Blake Wiedenheft et al.   NATURE

Proteins and DNA elements essential for the CRISPR adaptation process in Escherichia coli

(2012) Ido Yosef et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity

(2012) M. Jinek et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular memory of prior infections activates the CRISPR/Cas adaptive bacterial immunity system

(2012) Kirill A. Datsenko et al.   Nature Communications

CRISPR loci reveal networks of gene exchange in archaea

(2011) Avital Brodt et al.   Biology Direct

Innate and adaptive immunity in bacteria: mechanisms of programmed genetic variation to fight bacteriophages

(2011) David Bikard et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

A Very Early-Branching Staphylococcus aureus Lineage Lacking the Carotenoid Pigment Staphyloxanthin

(2011) Deborah C. Holt et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

CRISPR RNA maturation by trans-encoded small RNA and host factor RNase III

(2011) Elitza Deltcheva et al.   NATURE

CRISPR Inhibition of Prophage Acquisition in Streptococcus pyogenes

(2011) Takashi Nozawa et al.   PLoS One

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

(2011) N. J. Croucher et al.   SCIENCE

Dynamic properties of the Sulfolobus CRISPR/Cas and CRISPR/Cmr systems when challenged with vector-borne viral and plasmid genes and protospacers

(2010) Soley Gudbergsdottir et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Comparative network clustering of direct repeats (DRs) and cas genes confirms the possibility of the horizontal transfer of CRISPR locus among bacteria

(2010) Sajib Chakraborty et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The CRISPR/Cas bacterial immune system cleaves bacteriophage and plasmid DNA

(2010) Josiane E. Garneau et al.   NATURE

Sequence- and Structure-Specific RNA Processing by a CRISPR Endonuclease

(2010) Rachel E. Haurwitz et al.   SCIENCE

Self-targeting by CRISPR: gene regulation or autoimmunity?

(2010) Adi Stern et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Multidrug-Resistant Enterococci Lack CRISPR-cas

(2010) K. L. Palmer et al.   mBio

Cas6 is an endoribonuclease that generates guide RNAs for invader defense in prokaryotes

(2008) J. Carte et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Comparative analysis of CRISPR loci in lactic acid bacteria genomes

(2008) Philippe Horvath et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY

Small CRISPR RNAs Guide Antiviral Defense in Prokaryotes

(2008) S. J. J. Brouns et al.   SCIENCE

CRISPR Interference Limits Horizontal Gene Transfer in Staphylococci by Targeting DNA

(2008) Luciano A. Marraffini et al.   SCIENCE