User:Jarle Pahr/Biology

Notes on biology topics:

Quorum sensing

http://mbio.asm.org/content/4/3/e00314-13.abstract

CRISPR

Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) are genomic regions containing repeated sequences which are found in prokaryotes. They are involved in defense agains bacteriophages and other foreign genetic elements.

Cas9

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22745249

CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9) has been found to be connected to the function of CRISPR in degrading foreign genetic elements.

Sequence: http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q99ZW2

See http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/823.abstract

ALU sequences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alu_sequence

Stringent response

See |Stringent response

Stationary phase

http://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2013/02/bacterial-antidepressants-avoiding-stationary-phase-stress.html