Extracellular activity of a bacterial protease associated with reduced phage infectivity
Ehud Herbst, Gael Rosen Blechman, Taya Fedorenko, Sarah Melamed, Gil Amitai, Rotem Sorek
The paper shows a secreted bacterial protease reduces phage infectivity by degrading phage DNA, with phages escaping by mutating a tail-associated protein.
PLoS ONE · May 14, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology