CRISPR elements in Yersinia pestis acquire new repeats by preferential uptake of bacteriophage DNA, and provide additional tools for evolutionary studies.

By Christine Pourcel, Gregory Salvignol, Gilles Vergnaud. Microbiology, 2005

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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CRISPR/Cas system and its role in phage-bacteria interactions. (2010, background): “In 2005, three groups independently reported similarities between spacers and extrachromosomal elements such as phages and plasmids (12, 65, 71).”
The new frontier of genome engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 (2014, neutral): “and helicase domains (38, 40, 42, 43), it was proposed that CRISPR-Cas is an adaptive de-”
CRISPR-Cas systems: prokaryotes upgrade to adaptive immunity (2014, background): “Originally, the first application of CRISPR loci was exploiting CRISPR repeat occurrence and number diversity to typeMycobacterium and Yersinia (Pourcel et al., 2005) isolates, as defined by spacer oligo typing (spoligotyping) (Groenen et al., 1993).”
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin. (2005, background): “Recently, it has been reported that CRISPR elements in Yersinia pestis acquire new repeats by preferential uptake of bacteriophage DNA (Pourcel et al., 2005).”
The CRISPR/Cas9 system for plant genome editing and beyond. (2015, background): “, 1987), their biological function was not understood until 2005, when it was shown that the spacers were homologous to viral and plasmid sequences suggesting a role in adaptive immunity (Bolotin et al., 2005; Mojica et al., 2005; Pourcel et al., 2005).”
PILER-CR: Fast and accurate identification of CRISPR repeats (2007, methodology): “CRISPRs have been implicated in DNA rearrangement [4], host cell defense, replication and regulation [5,6] and provide new tools for evolutionary study and strain typing [7].”
Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Engineering (2014, background): “A key turning point came in 2005, when systematic analysis of the spacer sequences separating the individual direct repeats suggested their extrachromosomal and phage-associated origins (Mojica et al., 2005; Pourcel et al., 2005; Bolotin et al., 2005).”
CRISPRFinder: a web tool to identify clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (2007, background): “For instance, as shown with the sample ﬁle provided on the website (YP1 Yersinia), ﬁve Yersinia pestis strains possess at the same CRISPR locus two to eight spacers, some being unique and others shared by two or more strains (10).”
Phage Response to CRISPR-Encoded Resistance in Streptococcus thermophilus (2007, background): “We thank Denise Tremblay, Simon Labrie, and Julie Samson for stimulating discussions; Yanick Bourbeau for the DNA display conception; and Gene Bourgeau for editorial assistance.”
Diversity, Activity, and Evolution of CRISPR Loci in Streptococcus thermophilus (2007, background): “Based on similarities between CRISPR spacers and phage or plasmid sequences (4, 21, 23), it was proposed in the literature that CRISPR and cas genes might be involved in conferring immunity to the host cell against foreign DNA (19, 21).”
Delivering CRISPR: a review of the challenges and approaches (2018, background): “…1993), their function as part of an adaptive prokaryotic immune system (CRISPR-associated system, Cas) (Bolotin et al., 2005; Mojica et al., 2005; Pourcel et al., 2005; van der Oost et al., 2009), and subsequent development into a genomic editing tool (Jinek et al., 2012; Cho et al., 2013; Cong…”
CRISPR-Cas systems in bacteria and archaea: versatile small RNAs for adaptive defense and regulation. (2011, background): “The year 2005 marked a turning point when three groups independently reported that the hypervariable spacers showed sequence homology to viruses (or bacteriophages) or plasmids and hypothesized that CRISPRs and associated proteins could play a role in immunity against transmissible genetic elements ”