we recently found some really neat RNA-guided DNA-cutting systems in phages. Despite remarkable similarities to CRISPR systems, including encoding guide RNAs in arrays, they appear entirely evolutionarily distinct (but definitely related to snoRNAs 🤓)
We decided to call them TIGR-Tas systems 🐯
We decided to call them TIGR-Tas systems 🐯
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Lots more details here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv9789
(I'll try to make a fancier movie in time for the press version 🤞🤞)
(hashtag #TIGR #Tas)