In the Anti-CRISPR Jungle, Only the Weak Thrive? Journal Articles

abstract

• If, as we all know, only the strong survive, why do bacterial viruses (phages) encode weak suppressors of a bacterial immune system? In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Chevallereau et al. (2019) expertly demonstrate how, in the context of competition with other phages, weakness can be a strength.

authors

• Croteau, Felix R
• Hynes, Alexander

status

• published 

publication date

• February 2020

has subject area

• 0605 Microbiology (FoR)
• 1108 Medical Microbiology (FoR)
• Bacteria (MeSH)
• Bacteriophages (MeSH)
• CRISPR-Cas Systems (MeSH)
• Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (MeSH)
• Cooperative Behavior (MeSH)
• Immunology (Science Metrix)

published in

• Cell Host and Microbe  Journal

keywords

• Bacteria
• Bacteriophages
• CRISPR-Cas Systems
• Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
• Cooperative Behavior

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.chom.2020.01.019

PubMed ID

• 32053781

start page

• 157

end page

• 159

volume

• 27

issue

• 2