PEI Chenchen
State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China;Shenzhen Institute of Nutrition and Health, Huazhong Agricultural University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518000, China;Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518120, ChinaLI Yingjun
State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China;Shenzhen Institute of Nutrition and Health, Huazhong Agricultural University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518000, China;Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518120, ChinaThe battle for survival between microbes such as bacteria and archaea and viruses (bacteriophages) is an arms race. Bacteria and archaea have evolved innate and adaptive immune systems to protect themselves from viruses. Viruses use different counter-defense strategies to evade these phage defense mechanisms. The CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated) system is an adaptive immune system that is widely encoded by bacteria and archaea to resist foreign genetic elements such as viruses. At the same time, viruses also evolved specific anti-CRISPR to resist the immunity of the CRISPR-Cas system. In this paper, the discovery process, classification and mechanism of anti-CRISPR have been systematically reviewed, and their potential applications have prospected.
PEI Chenchen, LI Yingjun. Origin, development, and application of anti-CRISPR[J]. Microbiology China, 2021, 48(9): 3353-3367
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