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ArticleeLife2019

Functional metagenomics-guided discovery of potent Cas9 inhibitors in the human microbiome.

Kevin J Forsberg, Ishan V Bhatt, Danica T Schmidtke, Kamyab Javanmardi, Kaylee E Dillard, Barry L Stoddard, Ilya J Finkelstein, Brett K Kaiser, Harmit S Malik

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

44 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. AcrDB update: Predicted 3D structures of anti-CRISPRs in human gut viromes.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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  6. Mechanism of Cas9 inhibition by AcrIIA11.Nucleic acids research · 2025
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  16. CRISPR/Cas9 Landscape: Current State and Future Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Kevin J ForsbergDivision of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1545-8925
Ishan V BhattDivision of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.
Danica T SchmidtkeDivision of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.
Kamyab JavanmardiDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States.
Kaylee E DillardDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States.
Barry L StoddardDivision of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.
Ilya J FinkelsteinDepartment of Molecular Biosciences and Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9371-2431
Brett K KaiserDivision of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.
Harmit S MalikDivision of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6005-0016
Fred Hutch Cancer Center · USThe University of Texas at Austin · USCenter for Systems Biology · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

MegaTALS: hyperspecific reagents for targeted gene modification and correctionR01GM105691 · NIGMS · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI STODDARD, BARRY L. · 2014 to 2022
$2.7M
Mechanism, specificity, and design of CRISPR RNA-mediated gene regulationR01GM124141 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI FINKELSTEIN, ILYA J · 2017 to 2020
$1.2M
Dynamic target recognition and complex assembly of the Type I-E CRISPR-Cas systemF31GM125201 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI DILLARD, KAYLEE E · 2018 to 2020
$81k
NIGMS NIH HHS F31 GM125201NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM105691NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124131NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124141
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR-Cas systems protect bacteria and archaea from phages and other mobile genetic elements, which use small anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins to overcome CRISPR-Cas immunity. Because Acrs are challenging to identify, their natural diversity and impact on microbial ecosystems are underappreciated. To overcome this discovery bottleneck, we developed a high-throughput functional selection to isolate ten DNA fragments from human oral and fecal metagenomes that inhibit

Indexed as

MicrobiotaBacterial ProteinsCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Enzyme InhibitorsFecesHumansMetagenomicsMouthViral ProteinsBacterial ProteinsCRISPR-Associated Protein 9Enzyme InhibitorsViral Proteinsanti-CRISPRbacterial defense systemsCRISPR-CasE. colifunctional metagenomicshumanhuman microbiomeinfectious diseasemicrobiologyphageS. pyogenes

Identifiers

PMID31502535
PMCPMC6739867
OpenAlexW2972666641

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