Exciting news!! Our latest paper is out in Nat. Microbiol. @natmicrobiol.nature.com We show that a sub-lineage of 7th pandemic V. cholerae has acquired mobile genetic elements packed with phage defense systems—rendering it multi-phage resistant 😳 ..... 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧫🦠🔬🧬 @science.org Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @baptistedarracq.bsky.social @eloilittner.bsky.social @celineloot.bsky.social @epcrocha.bsky.social et al. #microbiology #phage #immunity #phagesky #MicroSky

WARNING: We have a postdoc position to work on the follow-up of this work. If you're interested, the deadline is tomorrow !!! (but I'll wait a few more days for interested candidates). research.pasteur.fr/fr/job/postd...

At least 10% of the V. cholerae integron cassettes have novel antiphage activities (see below). Considering that there are 25,000 distinct cassettes of unknown function, integrons constitute an extraordinary and almost inexhaustible reservoir of antiphage functions!

🧪 Finally out after peer review, our work showing that "Mobile #Integrons carry Phage Defense Systems" is now published in Science 🎉 Short 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

White smoke, we have a new pope and also 16 new anti-phages systems in sedentary integrons (SCIs) ! In collaboration with the Rocha lab, we show in our new paper that cassettes of these large platforms encode many known anti-phage defenses, and uncovered 16 new ones. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And its out! Last work of the lab: "Evolutionary Constraints on RNA Polymerase Gene Positioning in the Genome of Fast-Growing Bacteria." We show how the genomic location of RNA polymerase impacts cell physiology. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

👋 Hi antiphage defense community, we are soon releasing an update of DefenseFinder. We are doing our best to include all the great discoveries from the community, but with so much going on we might miss things. Please answer wt preprints/papers with new systems or mail/git them to us. 🙏

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nature.com/articles/s41... a collaborative success of CelineLoot (+ the rest of the PGB lab) with @epcrocha.bsky.social and the Biomics hub from the Pasteur

Check out our last work with Celine Loot, Ole Skovgaard, @amazeld.bsky.social and @sanmillan.bsky.social. We have deleted the Superintegron from V. cholerae! A long-awaited feat in the field!! Despite losing 3% of the genome, the strain remains phenotipically identical across Manu conditions!! 😵