Nature Communications (Mar 2024)

An OLD protein teaches us new tricks: prokaryotic antiviral defense

  • Eirene Marie Q. Ednacot,
  • Benjamin R. Morehouse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46925-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Reporting in Nature Communications, Huo and colleagues provide three-dimensional structures of a bacterial immune defense system called Gabija. This work builds on recently published structural and functional studies and contributes strong evidence that protein assembly formation is essential for antiviral function.