Check our recent contribution to this paper: Characterization of an #amyloid -based antiphage defence system in Escherichia coli, in press in Nature Microbiology. Great collaboration with the team of Sven Saupe from IBGC Bordeaux. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Characterization of an amyloid-based antiphage defence system in Escherichia coli - Nature Microbiology
Prion-like proteins in Escherichia coli trigger an abortive infection mechanism in response to phage infection—a process similar to amyloid-mediated immune signalling in fungi and animals.
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