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Anti-CRISPR protein applications: natural brakes for CRISPR-Cas technologies

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NATURE METHODS
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 471-479

Publisher

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41592-020-0771-6

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Funding

  1. University of California San Francisco Program for Breakthrough in Biomedical Research
  2. Sandler Foundation
  3. NIH Office of the Director Early Independence Award [DP5-OD021344]
  4. NIH [F32GM133127, R01GM127489]
  5. DARPA [HR0011-17-2-0043]
  6. Eotvos National Scholarship of Hungary
  7. Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions Individual Global Fellowship of the Horizon 2020 Research Program of the European Commission [844093]
  8. Joint Programming Initiative-Antimicrobial Resistance (JIP-AMR
  9. DARWIN project) [7044-00004B]
  10. Innovation Fund Denmark (Trojan Horse Project) [5157-00005B]
  11. Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [844093] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)

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Clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) genes, a diverse family of prokaryotic adaptive immune systems, have emerged as a biotechnological tool and therapeutic. The discovery of protein inhibitors of CRISPR-Cas systems, called anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins, enables the development of more controllable and precise CRISPR-Cas tools. Here we discuss applications of Acr proteins for post-translational control of CRISPR-Cas systems in prokaryotic and mammalian cells, organisms and ecosystems. This Review highlights recent discoveries and applications of anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins that enable the regulation of CRISPR-Cas technology.

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