Collaborative study with the Jinek lab published in Science

© 2024 EPFL

© 2024 EPFL

Our collaborative work with the Jinek lab on the DdmDE plasmid defense system was published yesterday.

14.06.2024

Congrats to David, Sandrine, Laurie & Melanie on their co-authorship on the work

Molecular mechanism of plasmid elimination by the DdmDE defense system

published on June 13th in the journal Science.

This was a fun collaboration spearheaded by Luuk Loeff in the Jinek lab at University of Zurich.

Funding

European Research Council Consolidator Grant 820152 (MJ)

European Research Council Consolidator Grant 724630 (MB)

HHMI International Scholarship 55008735 (MJ)

HHMI International Scholarship 55008726 (MB)

References

Loeff L., Adams D.W., Chanez C., Stutzmann S., Righi L., Blokesch M., Jinek M. (2024) Molecular mechanism of plasmid elimination by the DdmDE defense system. Science, first release publication - June 13th 2024;  (preprinted on bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.10.593530).