CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
... while engineering viruses
Acr genes can be used as positive selectable markers in engineering viruses... was used to replace genes in the difficult-to-engineer Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2 (Mayo-Muñoz...that have the gene deletion could replicate when challenged with the S. islandicus CRISPR-Cas system.
5. ... proteins are small enough that they could be engineered to “armor” therapeutic phages to protect them...He F, Jørgensen J, Madsen P, Bhoobalan-Chitty Y, Peng X (2018) Anti-CRISPR-Based and CRISPR-Based Genome...