MicrobiologybioRxiv
Bacterial retrons encode tripartite toxin/antitoxin systems
J. Bobonis, A. Mateus, B. Pfalz…·A. Typas
The paper identifies retrons as a novel family of tripartite toxin/antitoxin systems in bacteria, with the reverse transcriptase and msDNA functioning as antitoxin components.
DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-05091-4