Viral inventors: UMBC study finds virus DNA orchestrates a critical cellular pathway in bacteria

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2021-12-09

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Hansen, Sarah. Viral Inventors: Viral inventors: UMBC study finds virus DNA orchestrates a critical cellular pathway in bacteria. UMBC News. Dec. 9, 2021. https://news.umbc.edu/viral-inventors-umbc-study-finds-virus-dna-orchestrates-a-critical-cellular-pathway-in-bacteria/

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A protein produced by viral DNA is orchestrating the critical “SOS response” in a large group of bacterial species, according to a new study in Nucleic Acids Research co-led by Ivan Erill, professor of biological sciences at UMBC, and first author Miquel Sánchez-Osuna, a graduate student at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) whom Erill advises.