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Kazuhiro Horiba

National Institute of Infectious DiseasesORCID 0000-0003-3017-299XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Assay:structural biology· 1

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BiochemistrybioRxivPreprintJul 15, 2026

Structural mechanism of the type IX Retron-Kva2 anti-phage defense system

Yuya Hayashi, Yoshihisa Mitsuda, Kotaro Chihara…·Hiroshi Nishimasu

This study reveals the structural mechanism of the type IX Retron-Kva2 anti-phage defense system in Klebsiella variicola, showing how it cleaves host RNAs to inhibit phage infection.

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