Abstract

Zhang etal.1 reveal a previously unknown route to toxin activation whereby bacteriophage capsid proteins bind the antitoxin domain of the CapRel fused toxin-antitoxin system, triggering translational inhibition via pyrophosporylation of tRNAs and culminating in abortive infection-mediated phage resistance.

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