Bacterial retrons encode phage-defending tripartite toxin-antitoxin systems.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 2022
Historique:
received: 17 06 2020
accepted: 08 07 2022
pubmed: 20 7 2022
medline: 9 9 2022
entrez: 19 7 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Retrons are prokaryotic genetic retroelements encoding a reverse transcriptase that produces multi-copy single-stranded DNA

Identifiants

pubmed: 35850148
doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05091-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-022-05091-4
doi:

Substances chimiques

Antitoxins 0
DNA, Bacterial 0
DNA, Single-Stranded 0
Retroelements 0
RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase EC 2.7.7.49

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

144-150

Subventions

Organisme : NIAID NIH HHS
ID : K08 AI108794
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Jacob Bobonis (J)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Collaboration for joint PhD degree between EMBL and Heidelberg University, Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg, Germany.

Karin Mitosch (K)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

André Mateus (A)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå, Sweden.

Nicolai Karcher (N)

Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

George Kritikos (G)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

Joel Selkrig (J)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

Matylda Zietek (M)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

Vivian Monzon (V)

European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hinxton, UK.

Birgit Pfalz (B)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

Sarela Garcia-Santamarina (S)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology António Xavier, Oeiras, Portugal.

Marco Galardini (M)

Institute for Molecular Bacteriology, TWINCORE Centre for Experimental and Clinical Infection Research, a joint venture between the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Hannover, Germany.

Anna Sueki (A)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Callie Kobayashi (C)

Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Frank Stein (F)

Proteomics Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

Alex Bateman (A)

European Bioinformatics Institute, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Hinxton, UK.

Georg Zeller (G)

Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

Mikhail M Savitski (MM)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
Proteomics Core Facility, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.

Johanna R Elfenbein (JR)

Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA. jelfenbein@wisc.edu.

Helene L Andrews-Polymenis (HL)

Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. handrews@tamu.edu.

Athanasios Typas (A)

Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. typas@embl.de.
Structural and Computational Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. typas@embl.de.

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