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ArticleNature2024

An anti-CRISPR that pulls apart a CRISPR-Cas complex.

Chantel N Trost, Jing Yang, Bianca Garcia, Yurima Hidalgo-Reyes, Beatrice C M Fung, Jiuyu Wang, Wang-Ting Lu, Karen L Maxwell, Yanli Wang, Alan R Davidson

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. AcrIE7 inhibits the CRISPR-Cas system by directly binding to the R-loop single-stranded DNA.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Chantel N TrostDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6782-2143
Jing YangKey Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0065-9027
Bianca GarciaDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Yurima Hidalgo-ReyesDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Beatrice C M FungDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jiuyu WangKey Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7402-7842
Wang-Ting LuDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Karen L MaxwellDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-0211-5480
Yanli WangKey Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. ylwang@ibp.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-5969-1745
Alan R DavidsonDepartment of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. alan.davidson@utoronto.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-0744-9199

Funding

Beijing Municipal Science & Technology CommissionCanada Research Chair in Bacteriophage-Based TechnologiesNatural Science Foundation of China
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In biological systems, the activities of macromolecular complexes must sometimes be turned off. Thus, a wide variety of protein inhibitors has evolved for this purpose. These inhibitors function through diverse mechanisms, including steric blocking of crucial interactions, enzymatic modification of key residues or substrates, and perturbation of post-translational modifications

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Associated ProteinsCRISPR-Cas SystemsMacromolecular SubstancesViral ProteinsBacteriophagesBiotechnologyModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein SubunitsCRISPR-Associated ProteinsMacromolecular SubstancesProtein SubunitsViral Proteins

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