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CRISPR

20/09/2016 · by · in neuropsychiatry · Leave a comment

Diagram of the CRISPR prokaryotic antiviral defense mechanism.[1] Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR, pronounced crisper[2]) are segments of prokaryotic DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences. Each repetition is followed by short segments of “spacer DNA” from previous exposures to a bacteriophage virus or plasmid.[3] The CRISPR/Cas system is a prokaryotic immune system […]