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Doron Naki¹, Uri Gophna¹

¹The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.

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概括

像CRISPR-Cas系统这样的移动遗传元素可以推动进化. 在haloarchaea中,前病毒可能会将间隔器的获取外包给大质粒,这表明对病毒和质粒的合作免疫力.

科学领域:

微生物学和基因组学微生物学和基因组学
考古物和移动遗传元素
克里斯普尔-Cas适应性免疫

背景情况:

Prokaryotes 与移动遗传元素 (MGE) 相互作用,这些元素影响进化.
甲菌具有独特的基因组安排,包括CRISPR-Cas系统在等离子体和集成的前病毒上.
克里斯普尔-卡斯系统提供了对外来遗传元素的适应性免疫力.

研究的目的:

为了研究一种非同寻常的CRISPR-Cas系统在Haloferax lucentense*中的基因组安排.
探索塑体编码的CRISPR-Cas系统和病毒编码的CRISPR-Cas系统之间的潜在功能相互作用.
了解这些系统在haloarchaea中的进化起源和准特异性.

主要方法:

进行比较基因组学,以识别相似的前病毒CRISPR-Cas系统在相关的基因组.
遗传学分析以确定已识别的CRISPR-Cas系统的进化关系.
间隔分析以调查等离子体和前病毒系统的准偏好.

主要成果:

发现了一个不寻常的安排:一个完整的I-B型CRISPR-Cas系统在一个巨质体上,一个不完整的系统在一个Haloferax lucentense*中的前病毒上.
预病毒系统缺乏适应基因,这表明它依赖于等离子体系统来获取间距 ("适应外包").
类似的前病毒系统在haloarchaea中广泛存在,表明水平转移和移动防御功能;前病毒系统针对病毒,而等离子体系统针对病毒和等离子体.

结论:

鉴定的基因组安排表明一种由CRISPR-Cas系统调解的新型合作免疫形式.
预病毒和等离子体编码的CRISPR-Cas系统可以协同工作,保护宿主及其遗传元素免受竞争MGE和病毒的影响.
预病毒CRISPR-Cas系统的水平转移有助于它们的分布,并在haloarchaea中作为移动防御模块发挥作用.

关键词:

这就是CRISPR-Cas.适应性免疫是一种适应性免疫.演化演化演化演化演化演化演化枪支是为了雇佣.哈洛阿基亚 (Haloarchaea) 是一种新生植物.横向基因转移是指水平基因转移.移动的遗传元素是移动的.病毒的前兆病毒

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