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🧬 We discovered how bacteria detect phage infections by sensing fragments of their own degraded DNA.
Meet #ApeA – a #BacterialImmunity system activated by a novel signal - #Deoxydinucleotides.

Read our preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.648
98/2026.01.26.701840v1

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