Live virus-free or die: coupling of antivirus immunity and programmed suicide or dormancy in prokaryotes

Comprehensive comparative-genomic analysis of Type 2 toxin-antitoxin systems and related mobile stress response systems in prokaryotes

(2012) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

Polymorphic toxin systems: Comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics

(2012) Dapeng Zhang et al.   Biology Direct

A vast collection of microbial genes that are toxic to bacteria

(2012) A. Kimelman et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Identification of novel components of NAD-utilizing metabolic pathways and prediction of their biochemical functions

(2012) Robson Francisco de Souza et al.   Molecular BioSystems

Mechanism of Foreign DNA Selection in a Bacterial Adaptive Immune System

(2012) Dipali G. Sashital et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

RNA-guided genetic silencing systems in bacteria and archaea

(2012) Blake Wiedenheft et al.   NATURE

The wobble nucleotide-excising anticodon nuclease RloC is governed by the zinc-hook and DNA-dependent ATPase of its Rad50-like region

(2012) D. Klaiman et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Structural and biochemical characterization of HP0315 from Helicobacter pylori as a VapD protein with an endoribonuclease activity

(2012) Ae-Ran Kwon et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

CRISPR: New Horizons in Phage Resistance and Strain Identification

(2012) Rodolphe Barrangou et al.   Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Unification of Cas protein families and a simple scenario for the origin and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems

(2011) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

Toxins-antitoxins: diversity, evolution and function

(2011) Finbarr Hayes et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

CRISPR-based adaptive immune systems

(2011) Michael P Terns et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Balancing at survival's edge: the structure and adaptive benefits of prokaryotic toxin–antitoxin partners

(2011) Tim R Blower et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Cas3 is a single-stranded DNA nuclease and ATP-dependent helicase in the CRISPR/Cas immune system

(2011) Tomas Sinkunas et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Nature and Intensity of Selection Pressure on CRISPR-Associated Genes

(2011) N. Takeuchi et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

RelE-Mediated Dormancy Is Enhanced at High Cell Density in Escherichia coli

(2011) Y. Tashiro et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Defense Islands in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes and Prediction of Novel Defense Systems

(2011) K. S. Makarova et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Structures of the RNA-guided surveillance complex from a bacterial immune system

(2011) Blake Wiedenheft et al.   NATURE

Regulation of growth and death in Escherichia coli by toxin–antitoxin systems

(2011) Yoshihiro Yamaguchi et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems

(2011) Kira S. Makarova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A reverse transcriptase-related protein mediates phage resistance and polymerizes untemplated DNA in vitro

(2011) Chen Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

RNA-guided complex from a bacterial immune system enhances target recognition through seed sequence interactions

(2011) B. Wiedenheft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interference by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNA is governed by a seed sequence

(2011) E. Semenova et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial persistence by RNA endonucleases

(2011) Etienne Maisonneuve et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nidovirus ribonucleases: Structures and functions in viral replication

(2011) Rachel Ulferts et al.   RNA Biology

The phage-host arms race: Shaping the evolution of microbes

(2010) Adi Stern et al.   BIOESSAYS

Mathematical Modelling of the Sporulation-Initiation Network in Bacillus Subtilis Revealing the Dual Role of the Putative Quorum-Sensing Signal Molecule PhrA

(2010) Sara Jabbari et al.   BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY

The CRISPR System: Small RNA-Guided Defense in Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) Fedor V. Karginov et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Bacteriophage resistance mechanisms

(2010) Simon J. Labrie et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A novel host-specific restriction system associated with DNA backbone S-modification in Salmonella

(2010) Tiegang Xu et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Post-transcriptional control by bacteriophage T4: mRNA decay and inhibition of translation initiation

(2010) Marc Uzan et al.   Virology Journal

Prokaryotic homologs of Argonaute proteins are predicted to function as key components of a novel system of defense against mobile genetic elements

(2009) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

Deciding fate in adverse times: Sporulation and competence inBacillus subtilis

(2009) Daniel Schultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CRISPR-based adaptive and heritable immunity in prokaryotes

(2009) John van der Oost et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

MutL homologs in restriction-modification systems and the origin of eukaryotic MORC ATPases

(2008) Lakshminarayan M Iyer et al.   Biology Direct

A Novel Family of Sequence-specific Endoribonucleases Associated with the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

(2008) Natalia Beloglazova et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Systematic Survey for Novel Types of Prokaryotic Retroelements Based on Gene Neighborhood and Protein Architecture

(2008) K. K. Kojima et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

RloC: a wobble nucleotide-excising and zinc-responsive bacterial tRNase

(2008) Elena Davidov et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structural and evolutionary classification of Type II restriction enzymes based on theoretical and experimental analyses

(2008) Jerzy Orlowski et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH