Spacer capture and integration by a type I-F Cas1-Cas2-3 CRISPR adaptation complex [Biochemistry]

CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems capture DNA fragments from invading bacteriophages and plasmids and integrate them as spacers into bacterial CRISPR arrays. In type I-E and II-A CRISPR-Cas systems, this adaptation process is driven by Cas1–Cas2 complexes. Type I-F systems, however, contain a unique fusion of Cas2, with the type I...

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