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ArticleBioscience reports2017

CRISPR-Cas adaptive immunity and the three Rs.

Tom Killelea, Edward L Bolt

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Article in Bioscience reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Digging into the lesser-known aspects of CRISPR biology.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2021
    Review
  3. Origins and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
    Review
  4. A matter of background: DNA repair pathways as a possible cause for the sparse distribution of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
    Article
  5. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tom KilleleaSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK tom.killelea@nottingham.ac.uk ed.bolt@nottingham.ac.uk.
Edward L BoltSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK tom.killelea@nottingham.ac.uk ed.bolt@nottingham.ac.uk.
University of Nottingham · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this summary, we focus on fundamental biology of Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Cas (CRISPR-associated proteins) adaptive immunity in bacteria. Emphasis is placed on emerging information about functional interplay between Cas proteins and proteins that remodel DNA during homologous recombination (HR), DNA replication or DNA repair. We highlight how replication forks may act as 'trigger points' for CRISPR adaptation events, and the potential for cascade-interference complexes to act as precise roadblocks in DNA replication by an invader MGE (mobile genetic element), without the need for DNA double-strand breaks.

Indexed as

BacteriaCRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA, BacterialDNA RepairDNA ReplicationHomologous RecombinationDNA, BacterialCRISPRrecombinationreplication

Identifiers

PMID28674106
PMCPMC5518543
OpenAlexW2728319284

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Registered trials

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