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Toxic anti-phage defense proteins inhibited by intragenic antitoxin proteins
A. Zhong, X. Jiang, A. B. Hickman…·G. Storz
The paper identifies Rpn proteins as toxin-antitoxin systems that inhibit phage infection by blocking toxic full-length proteins with their smaller, variable C-terminal domains.
DOI 10.1101/2023.05.02.539157