CRISPR inhibition of prophage acquisition in Streptococcus pyogenes.

Streptococcus pyogenes, one of the major human pathogens, is a unique species since it has acquired diverse strain-specific virulence properties mainly through the acquisition of streptococcal prophages. In addition, S. pyogenes possesses clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CR...

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Main Authors: Takashi Nozawa, Nayuta Furukawa, Chihiro Aikawa, Takayasu Watanabe, Bijaya Haobam, Ken Kurokawa, Fumito Maruyama, Ichiro Nakagawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-05-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21573110/pdf/?tool=EBI