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(for the 'attack mechanism' part, I'm thinking of @davvi36.bsky.social recent work showing how attack v defense context matters for CRISPR v TA on plasmids) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Plasmids use immune systems like CRISPR-Cas to compete with other plasmids, but it is unclear when these systems provide a selective advantage. This study shows that CRISPR-Cas benefits resident plasm...
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CRISPR-Cas is beneficial in plasmid competition, but limited by competitor toxin–antitoxin activity when horizontally transferred
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