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Pseudomonas aeruginosa defends against phages through type IV pilus glycosylation.
Nature microbiology - 1 Jan 2018
Harvey Hanjeong, Bondy-Denomy Joseph, Marquis Hélène, Sztanko Kristina M, Davidson Alan R, Burrows Lori L
Abstract excerpt
Since phages present a major challenge to survival in most environments, bacteria express a battery of anti-phage defences including CRISPR-Cas, restriction-modification and abortive infection systems 1-4 . Such strategies are effective, but the phage genome-which encodes potentially inhibitory gene products-is still allowed to enter the cell. The safest way to preclude phage infection is to block initial phage...
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