Volume 27, No 2, Feb 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 2, February 2017: 163-164

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

CRISPR control of virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Blake Wiedenheft¹ and Joseph Bondy-Denomy²

¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
²Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Correspondence: Blake Wiedenheft, E-mail: bwiedeneheft@gmail.com; Joseph Bondy-Denomy,(joseph.bondy-denomy@ucsf.edu)

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and their associated genes (cas) are essential components of an adaptive immune system that protects bacteria and archaea from viral infection. Now a recent paper published in Cell Research suggests that the Type I-F immune system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa may also be involved in post-transcriptional regulation of virulence.

10.1038/cr.2017.6

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