Bacteriophage cooperation suppresses CRISPR-Cas3 and Cas9 immunity
A. L. Borges, J. Y. Zhang, M. Rollins, B. A. Osuna, B. Wiedenheft, J. Bondy-Denomy
The paper shows that phages cooperate by sharing anti-CRISPR proteins to suppress bacterial CRISPR-Cas immunity, enabling successful infection when individual phages fail to replicate.
bioRxiv · Mar 10, 2018Microbiology