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A novel strategy to protect prokaryotic cells from virus infection

Engineering Microbiology, ISSN: 2667-3703, Vol: 4, Issue: 2, Page: 100153
2024
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The recent discovery of the CRISPR-Cas-mediated acquired immunity system highlights the fact that our knowledge of phage/virus defense mechanisms encoded in bacterial and archaeal genomes is far from complete. Indeed, new prokaryotic immune systems are now continually being discovered. A recent report described a novel glycosylase that recognizes α-glycosyl-hydroxymethyl cytosin (α-Glu-hmC), a modified base observed in the T4 phage genome, where it produces an abasic site, thereby inhibiting the phage propagation.

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