Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27493190›Full record

ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.)2016

Diverse evolutionary roots and mechanistic variations of the CRISPR-Cas systems.

Prarthana Mohanraju, Kira S Makarova, Bernd Zetsche, Feng Zhang, Eugene V Koonin, John van der Oost

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Review in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 345 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

345 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Prarthana MohanrajuLaboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, 6703 HB Wageningen, Netherlands.
Kira S MakarovaNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
Bernd ZetscheBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Feng ZhangBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Eugene V KooninNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.
John van der OostLaboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, 6703 HB Wageningen, Netherlands. john.vanderoost@wur.nl.

Funding

Comparative Analysis Of Completely Sequenced GenomesZIALM000073 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 2009 to 2025
$43.1M
Isogenic Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Models of Human Disease MutationsR01DK097768 · NIDDK · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI COWAN, CHAD ALBERT, ZHANG, FENG · 2012 to 2016
$11.0M
Finding Protein Sequence Motifs--Methods And ApplicationsZIALM000061 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 2009 to 2025
$10.6M
Massively-parallel functional interrogation of psychiatric geneticsR01MH110049 · NIMH · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI ZHANG, FENG · 2015 to 2019
$5.5M
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COMPLETELY SEQUENCED GENOMESZ01LM000073 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 1996 to 2008
$1.2M
FINDING PROTEIN SEQUENCE MOTIFS--METHODS AND APPLICATIONSZ01LM000061 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 1994 to 2008
$645k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 LM000061Intramural NIH HHS Z01 LM000073NCCDPHP CDC HHS 5DP1-MH100706NIDDK NIH HHS 5R01DK097768-03NIMH NIH HHS 1R01-MH110049
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive immunity had been long thought of as an exclusive feature of animals. However, the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas defense system, present in almost half of prokaryotic genomes, proves otherwise. Because of the everlasting parasite-host arms race, CRISPR-Cas has rapidly evolved through horizontal transfer of complete loci or individual modules, resulting in extreme structural and functional diversity. CRISPR-Cas systems are divided into two distinct classes that each consist of three types and multiple subtypes. We discuss recent advances in CRISPR-Cas research that reveal elaborate molecular mechanisms and provide for a plausible scenario of CRISPR-Cas evolution. We also briefly describe the latest developments of a wide range of CRISPR-based applications.

Indexed as

Evolution, MolecularAdaptive ImmunityArchaeaBacteriaBacteriophagesCRISPR-Associated ProteinsCRISPR-Cas SystemsCrystallographyDNA, ViralGenome, ViralInterspersed Repetitive SequencesPlasmidsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA PrecursorsCRISPR-Associated ProteinsDNA, ViralRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA Precursors

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PMID27493190
PMCPMC13189112

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