PF01867

CRISPR associated protein Cas1

Pfam entry
Member databasePfam
Pfam typefamily
Short nameCas_Cas1
Author Enright A;0000-0002-6090-3100 Ouzounis C;0000-0002-0086-8657 Bateman A;0000-0002-6982-4660
Sequence Ontology0100021

Description

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) are a family of DNA direct repeats found in many prokaryotic genomes. This family of proteins corresponds to Cas1, a CRISPR-associated protein. Cas1 may be involved in linking DNA segments to CRISPR
[1]
.

References

1.Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin. Bolotin A, Quinquis B, Sorokin A, Ehrlich SD. Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) 151, 2551-61, (2005). View articlePMID: 16079334

Further reading

2. A guild of 45 CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein families and multiple CRISPR/Cas subtypes exist in prokaryotic genomes. Haft DH, Selengut J, Mongodin EF, Nelson KE. PLoS Comput. Biol. 1, e60, (2005). View articlePMID: 16292354

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