ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2023
The highly diverse antiphage defence systems of bacteria.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 322 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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322 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Precision phage therapy in the AI/ML era: a systematic review of discovery-to-clinical translation evidence.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Pooled it
- Phenotypic heterogeneity and genetic mechanisms of phage resistance in hypervirulent carbapenem-resistantVirulence · 2026Article
- When phage restriction is not immunity: Immune gates, replication-niche barriers, and assay-limited phenotypes.Engineering microbiology · 2026Article
- How bacterial immune systems sense phage infection.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Revisiting the life cycle of temperate phages.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Phage tail protein methylation enabling the virus to bind to the surface of bacterial cells is vital for progeny infectivity.Cell insight · 2026Article
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- Defining the essential genome of diverse phages with phage Tn-seq.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- Repurposing anti-phage defenses to differentially arrest the viral lifecycle reveals the regulatory logic of a parasitic satellite.mSystems · 2026Article
- Bacteriophage-bacteria coevolution: from molecular arms races to ecological and applied perspectives.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Oral Actinobacteria sense and defend against parasitic epibionts.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Shuttling, swapping, and mixing: the rapid modular evolution of antiviral repertoires in temperate phages and their satellites.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- The molecular basis of ADP-ribose pyrophosphorylation by a phage PRPS-like enzyme in NAD+ reconstitution.Nucleic acids research · 2026Article
- Antiviral defence is a conserved function of diverse bacterial DNA glycosylases.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
- The value of a prophage-borne defense system in phage-phage competition.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Phage-encoded contingency loci enable bet-hedging against host defence mechanisms.Nature microbiology · 2026Article
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- Phage therapy: from basic biology to clinical application.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Phage-encoded NARP3 system rebuilds NADScience advances · 2026Article
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Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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2 authors.
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Abstract
Bacteria and their viruses have coevolved for billions of years. This ancient and still ongoing arms race has led bacteria to develop a vast antiphage arsenal. The development of high-throughput screening methods expanded our knowledge of defence systems from a handful to more than a hundred systems, unveiling many different molecular mechanisms. These findings reveal that bacterial immunity is much more complex than previously thought. In this Review, we explore recently discovered bacterial antiphage defence systems, with a particular focus on their molecular diversity, and discuss the ecological and evolutionary drivers and implications of the existing diversity of antiphage defence mechanisms.
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