期刊
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
卷 422, 期 5, 页码 607-616出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.06.024
关键词
CRISPR; R-loop; Cascade; Cas3; recombination
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports [119-1191196-1201]
Stable RNA-DNA hybrids formed by invasion of an RNA strand into duplex DNA, termed R-loops, are notorious for provoking genome instability especially when they arise during transcription. However, in some instances (DNA replication and class switch recombination), R-loops are useful so long as their existence is carefully managed to avoid them persisting. A recent flow of research papers establishes a newly discovered use for R-loops as key intermediates in a prokaryotic immune system called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats). Structures and mechanism of ribonucleoprotein complexes (Cascades) that form CRISPR R-loops highlight precision targeting of duplex DNA that has sequence characteristics marking it as foe, enabling nucleolytic destruction of DNA and recycling the Cascade. We review these significant recent breakthroughs in understanding targeting/interference stages of CRISPR immunity and discuss questions arising, including a possible link between targeting and adaptive immunity in prokaryotes. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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