[CRISPR adaptive immunity systems of procaryotes].
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a newly identified prokaryotic immunity system against foreign genetic elements. In contrast to other cellular defense mechanisms (e.g. restriction-modification) CRISPR-mediated immunity is adaptive and can be programmed to protect cells against a particular bacteriophage or conjugative plasmid. In this review we describe general principles of CRISPR systems action and summarize known details of CRISPR systems from different microorganisms.
D001105:Archaea / Q000235:genetics* / Q000821:virology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000235:genetics* / Q000821:virology; D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*; D015280:DNA Restriction-Modification Enzymes / Q000502:physiology*; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences / Q000502:physiology*; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics*
D015280:DNA Restriction-Modification Enzymes