Functional RNA splitting drove the evolutionary emergence of type V CRISPR-Cas systems from transposons

Publication date: 30 October 2025Source: Cell, Volume 188, Issue 22Author(s): Shuai Jin, Zixu Zhu, Yunjia Li, Shouyue Zhang, Yijing Liu, Danyuan Li, Yuanqing Li, Yingfeng Luo, Zhiheng Cheng, Kevin Tianmeng Zhao, Qiang Gao, Guanglei Yang, Hongchao Li, Ronghong Liang, Rui Zhang, Jin-Long Qiu, Yong E. Zhang, Jun-Jie Gogo Liu, Caixia Gao