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The anti-phage mechanism of a widespread trypsin-MBL module
Pingping Huang, Jingxian Liu, Lijie Guo…·Meirong Chen
This study identifies a trypsin-MBL module as a bacterial immune effector that uses proteolytic activation to enable DNase activity against invading nucleic acids while preventing self-toxicity.
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