Identification of an anti-CRISPR protein that inhibits the CRISPR-Cas type I-B system in Clostridioides difficile

ABSTRACTCRISPR-Cas systems provide prokaryotic hosts with adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements. Many bacteriophages encode anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins that inhibit host defense. The identification of Acr proteins is challenging due to their small size and high sequence diversity, and onl...

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Main Authors: Polina Muzyukina, Anton Shkaruta, Noemi M. Guzman, Jessica Andreani, Adair L. Borges, Joseph Bondy-Denomy, Anna Maikova, Ekaterina Semenova, Konstantin Severinov, Olga Soutourina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00401-23