10th INTERNATIONAL MARDIN ARTUKLU SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES CONFERENCE, Mardin, Türkiye, 19 - 21 Mayıs 2023, ss.1092-1103
With the rapid increase in the use of technology, a new one is added to biotechnological
methods every day. One of them is CRISPR - Cas technology. CRISPR - Cas (regularly
spaced clustered short palindromic repeats - CRISPR-associated proteins) modules are
adaptive immune systems encoded by most archaea and many bacteria and act against
invading genetic elements such as viruses and plasmids. CRISPR - Cas systems provide
resistance to foreign mobile genetic elements and have a wide range of genome editing and
biotechnological applications. CRISPR functions as a defense system that bacteria use to
protect themselves against attacks from viruses. CRISPRs and Cas proteins provide RNAguided adaptive immunity to microorganisms and offer transformative technological
opportunities for programmable genome manipulation. The diversity, modularity and
efficiency of CRISPR-Cas systems are creating a biotechnological revolution. RNA-guided
Cas enzymes have been adopted as tools to manipulate the genomes of cultured cells, animals
and plants, accelerating the pace of basic research and enabling clinical and agricultural
breakthroughs. The CRISPR/Cas system is a robust and powerful tool not only for modifying
a gene's expression and function, but also for screening, monitoring and regulating those
genes. In this study, scientific studies related to CRISPR-Cas systems and their importance in
biotechnology are emphasized.