Targeted transposition with Tn7 elements: safe sites, mobile plasmids, CRISPR/Cas and beyond

Transposon-encoded CRISPR–Cas systems direct RNA-guided DNA integration

(2019) Sanne E. Klompe et al.   NATURE

CRISPR–Cas in mobile genetic elements: counter-defence and beyond

(2019) Guilhem Faure et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

RNA-guided DNA insertion with CRISPR-associated transposases

(2019) Jonathan Strecker et al.   SCIENCE

ComM is a hexameric helicase that promotes branch migration during natural transformation in diverse Gram-negative species

(2018) Thomas M Nero et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Systematic discovery of antiphage defense systems in the microbial pangenome

(2018) Shany Doron et al.   SCIENCE

Enabling genetic analysis of diverse bacteria with Mobile-CRISPRi

(2018) Jason M. Peters et al.   Nature Microbiology

Mobile Genetic Elements and Evolution of CRISPR-Cas Systems: All the Way There and Back

(2017) Eugene V. Koonin et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

How type II CRISPR–Cas establish immunity through Cas1–Cas2-mediated spacer integration

(2017) Yibei Xiao et al.   NATURE

Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems

(2017) Sergey Shmakov et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Recruitment of CRISPR-Cas systems by Tn7-like transposons

(2017) Joseph E. Peters et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The CRISPR Spacer Space Is Dominated by Sequences from Species-Specific Mobilomes

(2017) Sergey A. Shmakov et al.   mBio

On the Origin of Reverse Transcriptase-Using CRISPR-Cas Systems and Their Hyperdiverse, Enigmatic Spacer Repertoires

(2017) Sukrit Silas et al.   mBio

Direct CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA by a natural reverse transcriptase-Cas1 fusion protein

(2016) S. Silas et al.   SCIENCE

Repair of transposable phage Mu DNA insertions begins only when theE. colireplisome collides with the transpososome

(2015) Sooin Jang et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

(2015) Kira S. Makarova et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Conformational toggling controls target site choice for the heteromeric transposase element Tn7

(2015) Qiaojuan Shi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Casposons: a new superfamily of self-synthesizing DNA transposons at the origin of prokaryotic CRISPR-Cas immunity

(2014) Mart Krupovic et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Mu transpososome and RecBCD nuclease collaborate in the repair of simple Mu insertions

(2014) Wonyoung Choi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct interaction between the TnsA and TnsB subunits controls the heteromeric Tn7 transposase

(2013) K. Y. Choi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AbaR4 replaces AbaR3 in a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolate belonging to global clone 1 from an Australian hospital

(2011) M. Hamidian et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Characterization of the TnsD-attTn7 complex that promotes site-specific insertion of Tn7

(2010) Rupak Mitra et al.   Mobile DNA

Transposition into Replicating DNA Occurs through Interaction with the Processivity Factor

(2009) Adam R. Parks et al.   CELL

Retroviral integrase superfamily: the structural perspective

(2009) Marcin Nowotny   EMBO REPORTS

Tn7 elements: Engendering diversity from chromosomes to episomes

(2008) Adam R. Parks et al.   PLASMID