Bacteria are under immense evolutionary pressure from their viral invaders— bacteriophages. Bacteria have evolved numerous immune mechanisms, both innate and …
Bacteria are under constant attack from bacteriophages (phages), bacterial parasites that are the most abundant biological entity on earth. To resist phage infection, bacteria have …
D Ni, X Lu, H Stahlberg, B Ekundayo - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Short prokaryotic argonaute (pAgo) and toll/interleukin-1 receptor/resistance protein (TIR)– analog of PAZ (APAZ) form a heterodimeric SPARTA complex that provides immunity to its …
CRISPR-Cas systems defend prokaryotes against bacteriophages and mobile genetic elements and serve as the basis for revolutionary tools for genetic engineering. Class 2 …
PB Ugarte, P Barendse, DC Swarts - Current opinion in microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Both eukaryotes and prokaryotes (archaea and bacteria) encode an arsenal of immune systems that protect the host against mobile genetic elements (MGEs) including viruses …
A Kuzmenko, A Oguienko, D Esyunina, D Yudin… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Members of the conserved Argonaute protein family use small RNA guides to locate their mRNA targets and regulate gene expression and suppress mobile genetic elements in …
Argonaute proteins are programmable nucleases that have defense and regulatory functions in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. All known prokaryotic Argonautes (pAgos) …
Argonaute proteins constitute a highly diverse family of nucleic acid-guided proteins. They were first discovered in eukaryotes as key proteins in RNA interference systems, but …