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Mercedes Rivera

Harvard UniversityORCID 0009-0008-0939-695XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 2 Research Focus:protein folding & dynamics· 2 Approach:biophysical modeling· 1 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintMay 29, 2026

Phage RyR-domain proteins degrade ADPR-based immune signals and fuel NAD synthesis

Mercedes Rivera, Renee B. Chang, Colin M. Lewis…·Philip J. Kranzusch

This study identifies RyDEP as an enzyme that degrades 2'cADPR and 3'cADPR immune signals, inactivating bacterial defense and restoring NAD+.

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bacteria (other)proteomics

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MicrobiologySciencePeer-reviewedMar 5, 2026

Structural modeling reveals viral proteins that manipulate host immune signaling

Nitzan Tal, Romi Hadary, Renee B. Chang…·Rotem Sorek

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.

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bacteria (other)structural biology

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