The elements of CRISPR-Cas-like system in genome of Arabidopsis thaliana: possible origin and some evidence on their functionality

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Ivan Petrushin¹, Yuri Konstantinov², Igor Gorbenko^3
1LIN SB RAS, ivan.kiel@gmail.com
²SIPPB SB RAS, yukon@sifibr.irk.ru
³SIPPB SB RAS, gravov.chemistry@gmail.com

In the nuclear genome of Arabidopsis thaliana some cas genes and CRISPR cassettes were found by in silico methods. It is hypothesized that CRISPR-Cas-like elements appeared in plant genome as a result of endosymbiosis of ancient alphaproteobacteria.