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Wiedenheft Lab studies microbial defense and phage counter-defense
A Montana State University lab investigates how bacteria and archaea resist phages—and how the viruses evade those defenses.
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- The site lists 30 Protein Data Bank structures, including a 2.6 Å cryo-EM structure of a defense-associated reverse transcriptase.
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Each research example is tied to a named structure and a Protein Data Bank identifier, with cryo-EM resolution and publication details shown for the featured cases. The page describes mechanisms at molecular scale, including a retron complex assembled from RNA, DNA, a reverse transcriptase, an HNH nuclease, and four SMC-family ATPases. Its navigation also exposes publications, outreach, and a lab handbook.
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