Very happy to share our Druantia III–Zorya II synergy story, now on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2026.05.12.724681v1 It appears alongside several Druantia III papers from excellent colleagues, each telling a different part of the story. (links below)

This is the first time we observed bacteria use plasmolysis to defence against phages! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thanks all the authors to discover this together! @fnobrega.bsky.social Zhiying @garushyants.bsky.social Dinshaw and Eugene

Another work comes! 🥳🥳 Nice to work with Zhiying, Thomas and Roman to characterize the Kiwa mechanism! The overlapping interaction between Kiwa and RecBCD showcases another layer of bacterial defence systems' interaction:) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Kiwa is a bacterial membrane-embedded defence supercomplex activated by phage-induced membrane changes

Bacteria and archaea deploy diverse, sophisticated defence systems to counter virus infection, yet many immunity mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we characterise the Kiwa defence system as a...

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