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Target-induced Argonaute-HNH filaments confer bacterial immunity
Anna Kanevskaya, Lidiya Lisitskaya, Andrey V. Moiseenko…·Andrey Kulbachinskiy
The paper shows that short prokaryotic Argonautes (pAgos) activate HNH nuclease effectors after RNA-guided DNA recognition, forming filaments that degrade DNA and confer bacterial immunity.
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