Assistant Professor @ ISTA
Using cryo-EM to understand how bacteria defend themselves
https://bravo-lab.org/
Jack Bravo
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Happy to share our latest pre-print on the Druantia defense system.
We find that Type III Druantia uses a cooperative helicase-nuclease mechanism to sense and degrade replication-associated forked DNA structures.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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The antiphage mechanism of a widespread trypsin-MBL defense module pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42243536/ #cryoEM
Really looking forward to sharing new (unpublished) work from our lab at this upcoming meeting!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very happy to share this preview article written by my postdoc Danny on exciting recent work from @ostermanilya.bsky.social and @soreklab.bsky.social. New bacterial immunity, phage countermeasures, and a double pun combo in the title.