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343: Nucleotides to the Defense

343: Nucleotides to the Defense

Update: 2025-10-25
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TWiM explores two different ways that bacteria defend against phages through the synthesis of cyclic nucleotides.

Hosts:  Michael Schmidt and Mark O. Martin

 

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Links for this episode:

  • Decoy cyclic nucleotides in phage defense (Nature)

  • CRISPR defense with nucleotides (Nature)

  • A decoy defence molecule to set a trap for viruses (Nature)

  • Cyclic oligonucleotide-based antiphage signaling system immunity (Curr Opin Immunol)

 

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343: Nucleotides to the Defense

343: Nucleotides to the Defense

Michael Schmidt, Mark O. Martin.