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June 6, 2024Nature CommunicationsOpen Access

Nucleic acid mediated activation of a short prokaryotic Argonaute immune system

Jithesh Kottur Radhika Malik Aneel K. Aggarwal

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Abstract

A short prokaryotic Argonaute (pAgo) TIR-APAZ (SPARTA) defense system, activated by invading DNA to unleash its TIR domain for NAD(P)

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Kottur et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e65d00b6db6435875eb0b4 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49271-4

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