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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Bioinformatic Identification of CRISPR-Cas Systems in

Ronald Guillermo Peláez Sánchez, Juanita González Restrepo, Santiago Pineda, Alexandra Milena Cuartas-López, Juliana María Martínez Garro, Marco Torres-Castro, Rodrigo Urrego, Luis Ernesto López-Rojas, Jorge Emilio Salazar Florez, Fernando P Monroy

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Ronald Guillermo Peláez SánchezLife and Health Sciences Research Group, Graduate School, CES University, Medellin 050021, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-2815-9844
Juanita González RestrepoLife and Health Sciences Research Group, Graduate School, CES University, Medellin 050021, Colombia.
Santiago PinedaLife and Health Sciences Research Group, Graduate School, CES University, Medellin 050021, Colombia.ORCID 0009-0009-8721-7061
Alexandra Milena Cuartas-LópezLife and Health Sciences Research Group, Graduate School, CES University, Medellin 050021, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0003-1885-6707
Juliana María Martínez GarroCES Biology, Science and Biotechnology School, CES University, Medellin 050021, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0001-8984-2340
Marco Torres-CastroDr. Hideyo Noguchi Regional Research Center, Laboratory of Zoonoses and Other Vector-Borne Diseases, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mérida 97000, Mexico.ORCID 0000-0002-8295-0100
Rodrigo UrregoINCA-CES Group, School of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnic, Universidad CES, Medellín 050021, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0001-5716-5832
Luis Ernesto López-RojasColombian Institute of Tropical Medicine (ICMT), Sabaneta 055450, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0003-1736-1307
Jorge Emilio Salazar FlorezGEINCRO Research Group, School of Health Sciences, San Martin University, Sabaneta 055457, Colombia.ORCID 0000-0002-7666-9099
Fernando P MonroyDepartment of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3466-7466

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Abstract

Leptospirosis is a globally distributed zoonotic disease caused by pathogenic bacteria of the

methodsa bioinformatics workflow was followed: genomes were downloaded from the NCBI database; Cas protein detection was carried out using the CRISPR-CasFinder and RAST web servers; functional analyses of Cas proteins were performed with InterProScan, ProtParam, Swiss Model, Alphafold3, Swiss PDB Viewer, and Pymol; conservation pattern detection was conducted using MEGA12, and Seqlogos; spacer identification was carried out with the Actinobacteriophages database and BLAST version 1.4.0; and bacteriophage detection was performed using PHASTER, and PHASTEST.

resultsCas proteins were detected in 36 out of the 77 species of the

conclusionsThe presence of Cas proteins, direct repeats, and spacer sequences with homology to bacteriophage genomes provides evidence for a functional CRISPR-Cas system in at least 19 species.

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Computational BiologyCRISPR-Cas SystemsLeptospiraBacteriophagesGenome, BacterialLeptospirosisCAS proteinscrRNAdirect repetitionsgenetic editingleader sequenceLeptospira speciesProtospacer Adjacent Motifspacers

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PMCPMC12567085

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