Happy to see our research on SMC Wadjet published in Molecular Cell. We showed DNA loop extrusion (LE) by a bacterial SMC, confirming LE is conserved across all life forms. Wadjet's LE activity is crucial for recognizing and restricting foreign plasmids, serving as a defense mechanism. 🧬🔬🧪

Structural diversity and oligomerization of bacterial ubiquitin-like proteins https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.623966v1

Mechanistic basis for protein conjugation in a diverged bacterial ubiquitination pathway https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.623953v1