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  • Bacterial antiviral defense suggests ancient link to human chromosome protection
  • Phage Proteases Trigger a Conserved Bacterial Antiviral Defense Pathway
  • Wolbachia redirects host ATP metabolism to suppress viruses in mosquito cells

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phys.org /1 week ago

Bacterial antiviral defense suggests ancient link to human chromosome protection

A new antiviral defense system discovered by Columbia scientists could be adapted in the future into a gene editor that slows down aging in our cells and improves cancer therapies....

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genengnews.com /2 weeks ago

Phage Proteases Trigger a Conserved Bacterial Antiviral Defense Pathway

Researchers have uncovered how phage proteases activate CBASS antiphage immunity, revealing a novel bacterial virus-sensing mechanism that could inform development of more effectiv...

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bioengineer.org /1 day ago

Wolbachia redirects host ATP metabolism to suppress viruses in mosquito cells

A mosquito-cell study found that Wolbachia redirects host ATP metabolism toward its own proliferation while suppressing dengue and Venezuelan equine encephalitis viruses.

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Cyclic tri-adenylate controls a CARF-TM effector in type II Panoptes anti-phage systems

by Sabine Grüschow, Peter Wotherspoon, Emma Hilton-Balfe, Shirley Graham, Malcolm F. White Cyclic nucleotide second messengers are used in all domains of life to amplify viral inf...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Turning a phage anti-defense weapon into an immunity trigger

by Anna B. Adelstein, Naama Aviram Most bacterial immune systems raise an alarm when they sense a phage. A new study in PLOS Biology shows how type II Panoptes reverses this logic...

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journals.plos.org /2 weeks ago

Repurposing ritonavir to induce proteasomal degradation of IE1 for inhibition of human cytomegalovirus replication

by Wanfeng Liu, Yu Shi, Xudong Guo, Chenyu Lou, Zhangyi Xie, Yitian Shen, Liang Zhang, Sunzhong Mao, Xiangyang Xue, Shiyu Feng Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major pathogen aff...

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thehindubusinessline.com /18 hours ago

CCMB team finds a cellular ‘alarm switch’ against viruses

Scientists have found that the protein called DZIP3 acts as this switch playing a key role in the immune system

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scitechdaily.com /6 days ago

A Virus Gives Itself Away the Moment It Attacks

Researchers have found the trigger behind a powerful bacterial defense against viruses. Viruses that prey on bacteria could become an increasingly important tool for treating bacte...

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genengnews.com /3 weeks ago

Viral Protein Helps Self-Amplifying RNA Overcome Cellular Defenses

Adding a viral protein, NoV B2, helped self-amplifying RNA overcome cellular defenses and produce more target protein without diminishing immune stimulation, potentially enabling f...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Atlastin-2-mediated endoplasmic reticulum membrane tethering is critical for flavivirus replication

by Jonathan Einterz Owen, Cheyanne Lynn Bemis, Qingyi Wang, Ambarish C. Varadan, Jacob W. Vander Velden, Laura Andačić, Olus Uyar, Mansi Gupta, Christopher D. Scharer, Laurent Chat...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

The value of a prophage-borne defense system in phage–phage competition

by Yigal Meir, Ned S. Wingreen Temperate phages that incorporate into their bacterial hosts’ genomes often encode defense systems that protect their hosts from superinfection by u...

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journals.plos.org /1 month ago

Small serine recombinases are markers for antiphage defense system discovery

by Shelby E. Andersen, Joshua M. Kirsch, Navtej Singh, Stephen R. Garrett, John C. Whitney, Jay R. Hesselberth, Breck A. Duerkop Renewed interest in phage therapy has highlighted...

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bioengineer.org /1 day ago

Ailanthone suppresses HSV-1 and eases keratitis in mice

Ailanthone reduced HSV-1 replication in cell models and eased corneal disease in mice, with experiments implicating reduced expression of the host factor ITGB2.

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cafepharma.com /1 day ago

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phys.org /1 month ago

Antibody cocktails could steer viruses into evolutionary dead ends

When a virus mutates, the world usually finds out the hard way. Variants of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can slip past vaccines and antibody drugs before scientists fully understand wh...

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fightaging.org /1 month ago

Asymptomatic Persistent Infection as a Contribution to Degenerative Aging

Persistent infections such as cytomegalovirus and other herpesviruses most likely accelerate aging, primarily via harmful effects on the immune system that lead to earlier immunose...

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