A viral "codebreaker" intercepts a host alarm

Authors

Artem Nemudryi, Anna Nemudraia, Tanner Wiegand, Samuel H. Sternberg, Blake Wiedenheft

Publication

Cell Host & Microbe

Abstract

Immune systems generate diverse alarm signals in response to invading pathogens. In a recent Nature paper, Leavitt et al. identified a family of phage-encoded “codebreakers” that intercept nucleotide-derived immune signals and render the cell defenseless to viral infection.

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