Not Your Typical Anti-CRISPR

Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Jul 8;28(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2020.06.016.

Abstract

In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, two papers by Osuna et al. describe the characterization of AcrIIA1, an anti-CRISPR protein distributed widely among Listeria phages. AcrIIA1 functions as an anti-CRISPR and as a dynamic repressor of acr loci, suggesting it may play an important role in lysogeny.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Bacteriophages / genetics*
  • CRISPR-Cas Systems
  • Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
  • Listeria*
  • Lysogeny