Great work run by @emmajbanks.bsky.social and @tunglejic.bsky.social showing that the gta lytic system in caulobacter evolved from a phage antidefence system. It was fun to collect tomo of these at SLAC and segment them with Mai at YSBL. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An immunity-like system functions as a lysis control hub to promote gene transfer agent particle release from host bacterial cells, suggesting that bacterial immune systems may be co-opted to promote ...
