Transposition: A CRISPR Way to Get Around

Tatiana Dimitriu; Ben Ashby; Edze Westra

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.010

Transposition: A CRISPR Way to Get Around

Tatiana Dimitriu, Ben Ashby, Edze Westra

Department of Mathematical Sciences

University of Exeter

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Abstract

CRISPR-Cas systems provide sequence-specific immunity against selfish genetic elements in prokaryotes. Now, two studies show that transposon-encoded variants can guide sequence-specific transposition. These findings have important practical implications but also raise questions of why and how this strategy would benefit transposons.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R886-R889
Number of pages	4
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	18
Early online date	23 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.010
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2019

Keywords

CRISPR
transposable element
Transposons

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