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'Fanzor,' the first CRISPR-like system found in complex life
- COGlory 3y agoI must have missed something (unsurprising) but I could have sworn I remember reading about Fanzor1 and Fanzor2 like a decade ago. I would say this must be a different Fanzor, but my brain had them cataloged as transposases, and lo and behold, a quick PubMed search: https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1759-8753-4-12 https://mobilednajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...
- ftxbro 3y agothey are bacterial sequences that got into other organisms dna somehow