Journal Club Talk 10/27/21

Event Date: 
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 1:00pm

GH N114 (subject to 50% capacity limit, indoor masking) and Class Capture

Claire Kokontis
Bondy-Denomy Lab

“Hijack of CRISPR defenses by selfish genes”

Klompe SE, Vo PLH, Halpin-Healy TS, Sternberg SH. Transposon-encoded CRISPR-Cas systems direct RNA-guided DNA integration. Nature. 2019 Jul;571(7764):219-225. Epub 2019 Jun 12. PMID: 31189177.

 

Bassem Al-Sady

“Pathogen mimicry goes just too far: Tales of viruses with fat genomes and tiny nucleosomes”

Liu Y, Bisio H, Toner CM, Jeudy S, Philippe N, Zhou K, Bowerman S, White A, Edwards G, Abergel C, Luger K. Virus-encoded histone doublets are essential and form nucleosome-like structures. Cell. 2021 Aug 5;184(16):4237-4250.e19. Epub 2021 Jul 22. PMID: 34297924; PMCID: PMC8357426.