Mining for novel bacterial defence systems

Rodolphe Barrangou; John van der Oost

doi:10.1038/s41564-018-0149-z

Mining for novel bacterial defence systems

Rodolphe Barrangou^*, John van der Oost

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Bacteria encode many strategies to prevent or escape infection. Through the analysis of metagenomic dark matter, several novel defence systems were identified, some of which were engineered and characterized in vivo, showing that they provide resistance against viruses and plasmids.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	535-536
Journal	Nature Microbiology
Volume	3
Early online date	9 Apr 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0149-z
Publication status	Published - 30 Apr 2018

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