The Kongming defense: Host-pathogen battles take a new face
Bacteria employ diverse immune systems, such as CRISPR-Cas, to fend off phage infections. A recent study uncovered the unprecedented mechanistic features of the Kongming bacterial defense system, which uniquely exploits phage-derived enzymes to synthesize deoxyinosine triphosphate (dITP), thereby tr...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Engineering Microbiology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667370325000232 |
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