The engineered CRISPR-CAS system is a beneficial biological tool for detecting and combating antibiotic resistance microbes

Abstract

Nowadays, the quick detection of antibiotic resistance bacteria causes a major problem in the field of the development of new antibiotics against the resistant bacteria. To overcome this problem, genome editing tools like clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) can be used. The CRISPR-CAS system is useful for targeting and killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria by cleaving resistance genes. It is also used to detect antibiotic resistant bacteria. CRISPR is made up of a single guide RNA and the CAS 9 protein. The single guide RNA is used to guide toward the target sequence, and the CAS 9 protein is an enzyme that cuts DNA and is used in conjunction with the guide RNA. This modified sgRNA contains a complementary sequence to that of the target resistance gene and recognizes the target resistance sequence; therefore, it is cleaved by CAS-9 protein, and the removal of the resistance gene turns bacteria into antibiotic-sensitive ones. One of the delivery systems of CRISPR into bacteria is via bacteriophage.