ugobananas (@uugobananas.bsky.social)

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...

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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... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.26.530102v2