Prokaryote articles within Nature

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• Article | 27 September 2023

  Transposon-encoded nucleases use guide RNAs to promote their selfish spread

  TnpB and IscB nucleases use transposon-encoded guide RNAs to target genomic sequences for cleavage, thereby favouring copying and spreading of transposable elements.

  • Chance Meers
  • , Hoang C. Le
  •  & Samuel H. Sternberg

• Article | 13 April 2015

  CRISPR adaptation biases explain preference for acquisition of foreign DNA

  In the bacterial immunity system CRISPR, spacer acquisition is facilitated near replication-termination regions.

  • Asaf Levy
  • , Moran G. Goren
  •  & Rotem Sorek

• Letter | 05 August 2012

  The prokaryote messenger c-di-GMP triggers stalk cell differentiation in Dictyostelium

  The prokaryote signalling intermediate cyclic di-(3′:5′)-guanosine monophosphate is shown to be the morphogen responsible for stalk cell differentiation and, thus, the transition from slug migration to fructification in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

  • Zhi-hui Chen
  •  & Pauline Schaap

• Article
  03 November 2010 | Open Access

  Genomic and functional adaptation in surface ocean planktonic prokaryotes

  Using newly derived genome sequences of 137 marine microbial isolates as well as previously obtained genome and metagenome data, this study presents a functional analysis of picoplankton residing in the ocean's surface layer.

  • Shibu Yooseph
  • , Kenneth H. Nealson
  •  & J. Craig Venter