ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Decoding bacterial immunity to enhance antimicrobial action
The rise of antibiotic resistance demands new strategies to combat bacterial infections. With renewed interest in phage-bacteria interactions, over 150 novel phage defence systems were recently identified, most of which protect bacteria from propagating phages via host-regulated death or growth arrest in an abortive infection process (Abi). Abi systems, encoded primarily on mobile genetic elements, exhibit diverse mechanisms and are pervasive in bacteria. However, despite significant mechanistic progress, critical aspects of their regulation in native bacterial hosts remain unclear, such as the impact of genetic background on their maintenance or how autoimmunity (erroneous activation…
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