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ArticleMolecular microbiology2011

Envelope stress is a trigger of CRISPR RNA-mediated DNA silencing in Escherichia coli.

Ritsdeliz Perez-Rodriguez, Charles Haitjema, Qingqiu Huang, Ki Hyun Nam, Sarah Bernardis, Ailong Ke, Matthew P DeLisa

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Article in Molecular microbiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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70citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ritsdeliz Perez-RodriguezSchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of Microbiology Macromolecular Diffraction Facility at CHESS Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
Charles Haitjema
Qingqiu Huang
Ki Hyun Nam
Sarah Bernardis
Ailong Ke
Matthew P DeLisa
Zero to Three · USCornell University · USMedical Protective · US

Funding

Structure and Function of S-adenosyl-L-methionine RiboswitchesR01GM086766 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI KE, AILONG · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
Structure and mechanism of CRISPR interference.R01GM102543 · NIGMS · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI KE, AILONG · 2013 to 2015
$917k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM-086766NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM086766NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102543
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A widespread feature in the genomes of most bacteria and archaea is an array of clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) that, together with a group of CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins, mediate immunity against invasive nucleic acids such as plasmids and viruses. Here, the CRISPR-Cas system was activated in cells expressing a plasmid-encoded protein that was targeted to the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway. Expression of this Tat substrate resulted in upregulation of the Cas enzymes and subsequent silencing of the encoding plasmid in a manner that required the BaeSR two-component regulatory system, which is known to respond to extracytoplasmic stress. Furthermore, we confirm that the CasCDE enzymes form a stable ternary complex and appear to function as the catalytic core of the Cas system to process CRISPR RNA into its mature form. Taken together, our results indicate that the CRISPR-Cas system targets DNA directly as part of a defence mechanism in bacteria that is overlapping with but not limited to phage infection.

Indexed as

Gene SilencingBase SequenceDNA, BacterialEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGenes, BacterialGreen Fluorescent ProteinsInverted Repeat SequencesModels, GeneticMolecular Sequence DataMutationOxidoreductases, N-DemethylatingPlasmidsProkaryotic CellsRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRibonucleasesDNA, BacterialEscherichia coli ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsOxidoreductases, N-DemethylatingRecombinant Fusion ProteinsRibonucleasesRNA, Bacterialtrimethylamine dehydrogenase

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PMID21255106
PMCPMC3040579
OpenAlexW2104549970

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