tRNA-derived second messengers confer bacterial immunity
Bacterial small-molecule messengers that function in diverse immune signaling pathways have been thought to derive strictly from biosynthesis using nucleotide and cofactor substrates. Here we report a nuclease-driven immune signaling pathway in which tRNA cleavage generates a specific small molecule that triggers cell death in response to RNA-guided transcript recognition in prokaryotes. We…
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