🧬 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
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