Tn7-CRISPR-Cas12K elements manage pathway choice using truncated repeat-spacer units to target tRNA attachment sites
Hsieh, S.-C.; Peters, J. E.
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CRISPR-Cas systems provide a defense against mobile elements. These defense systems have been naturally coopted multiple times for guide RNA-directed transposition by Tn7-like transposons. Elements associated with a type I-F CRISPR-Cas system categorize guide RNAs, maintaining a standard CRISPR array capable of acquiring new spacers targeting other mobile elements while maintaining a special guide RNA allowing integration into a conserved site in the chromosome called an attachment site. We show here that Tn7-like elements associated with a type V-K (Cas12K-based) system use a similar strategy to target diverse tRNA genes as attachment sites. These guides are encoded as truncated minimal repeat-spacer units and are found in distinct locations. Multiple pieces of information support that V-K guide RNAs are acquired using a type I-D adaptation system, but remain private to the V-K transposition process. This catalog of Cas12K elements and naturally occurring insertions will help future work engineering precision integration systems.
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