Tominaga K. (tomiken)

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20 October 2026 07:36

A prophage-encoded anti-phage defence system that prevents DNA packaging by targeting the terminase complex | Nature Communications

Ordo Fraterna Fibonacci

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20 October 2026 07:35

Death and chemotaxis: Bacterial chemotaxis enables collective escape from phage predation Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Zeynep Baharoglu

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18 October 2026 17:24

After tRNA, rRNA, mRNA, RluA apparently also modifies phage RNA (E. coli) 🦠 A host enzyme pseudouridylates an RNA bacteriophage genome and accelerates virus production www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Kenneth Loi

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18 October 2026 17:21

Viruses have parasites too. Our new preprint shows how phages use VIPR to silence parasitic satellites, and how the satellites fight back with its own decoy VIPR RNAs that redirect VIPR to DNA REP elements in the host genome!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sorek Lab

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17 October 2026 21:34

Very nice discovery from the Jackson, Bravo and Basel labs. Cleaved tRNA ends, loaded with an amino acid, activate a form of bacterial immunity