Nitzan Tal

The paper investigates the functional diversity of phage sponge proteins that sequester host immune signals, identifying new specificities against CBASS, Pycsar, and Thoeris systems.

The paper identifies viral proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling by analyzing structural and biophysical traits, and develops a computational pipeline to predict such proteins in phage genomes.

The paper shows that KpAvs2 recognizes a different phage protein, Ksap1, during infection compared to heterologous co-expression assays.

This study shows that Pogz deficiency in mice causes brain abnormalities, transcription dysregulation, and cerebellar dysfunction resembling ASD features in humans.