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ReviewGenes2020

Cas3 Protein-A Review of a Multi-Tasking Machine.

Liu He, Michael St John James, Marin Radovcic, Ivana Ivancic-Bace, Edward L Bolt

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In one paragraph

Review in Genes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Bioinformatic Identification of CRISPR-Cas Systems inPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  6. Emerging tools in plant genome editing.Frontiers in genome editing · 2025
    Review
  7. Assessing spacer acquisition rates inFrontiers in microbiology · 2024
    Article
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  14. Transcriptional analysis of CRISPR I-B arrays ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
    Article
  15. Digging into the lesser-known aspects of CRISPR biology.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2021
    Review
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Liu HeSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK.
Michael St John JamesSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK.
Marin RadovcicDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Ivana Ivancic-BaceDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Edward L BoltSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK.
University of Nottingham · GBUniversity of Zagreb · HR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cas3 has essential functions in CRISPR immunity but its other activities and roles, in vitro and in cells, are less widely known. We offer a concise review of the latest understanding and questions arising from studies of Cas3 mechanism during CRISPR immunity, and highlight recent attempts at using Cas3 for genetic editing. We then spotlight involvement of Cas3 in other aspects of cell biology, for which understanding is lacking-these focus on CRISPR systems as regulators of cellular processes in addition to defense against mobile genetic elements.

Indexed as

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsDNA HelicasesGene EditingInterspersed Repetitive SequencesModels, MolecularProtein ConformationDNA HelicasesbiofilmCas3CRISPRhelicasenuclease

Identifiers

PMID32085454
PMCPMC7074321
OpenAlexW3007510352

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Registered trials

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