🧬 We discovered how bacteria detect phage infections by sensing fragments of their own degraded DNA. Meet #ApeA – a #BacterialImmunity system activated by a novel signal - #Deoxydinucleotides. Read our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.648 98/2026.01.26.701840v1 A thread 🧵 (1/11)