Marc Erhardt

1 month ago | biorxiv.org | Ekaterina P. Andrianova |Amanda Dobbins |Marc Erhardt |David R. Hendrixson

AbstractThe bacterial flagellum is a complex nanomachine essential for motility, environmental sensing, and host colonization. While many of its core components have been well characterized, the relevance of proteins such as FliO, which are inconsistently annotated and poorly conserved at the sequence level, has remained ambiguous in their evolutionary and functional status.

Dec 11, 2024 | nature.com | Haidai Hu |Philipp F. Popp |Aritz Roa-Eguiara |Nicole R. Rutbeek |Leighton J Payne |Dorentina Humolli | +8 more

AbstractZorya is a recently identified and widely distributed bacterial immune system that protects bacteria from viral (phage) infections. Three Zorya subtypes have been discovered, each containing predicted membrane-embedded ZorAB complexes paired with soluble subunits that differ among Zorya subtypes, notably ZorC and ZorD in type I Zorya systems1,2.