Happy to share a preview of recent work from E. Koonin & colleagues, revealing the widespread presence of reparative helicases as central components of prokaryotic immune systems. Written by our talented PhD student Oksana. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
A repair helicase unravels the tangled web of bacterial immunityDNA repair proteins are repeatedly repurposed for antiviral immunity. In this issue
of Cell Host & Microbe, Bell et al. utilized phylogenetic reconstruction of the evolutionary
routes of the YprA repa...www.cell.com