NAD to the bone: How bacteria put phages under aRES-t  and how phages fight back
D. Williams-Jones, J.P.K. Bravo, Cell Host &; Microbe 34 (2026) 978–980.

RNA-triggered Ca cleaves tRNA tails to execute bacterial immunity
O. Dmytrenko, B. Yuan, K.T. Crosby, M. Krebel, X. Chen, J.S. Nowak, A. Chramiec-Gbik, B. Filani, A.-S. Gribling-Burrer, W. van der Toorn, M. von Kleist, T. Achmedov, R.P. Smyth, S. Glatt, J.P.K. Bravo, D.W. Heinz, R.N. Jackson, C.L. Beisel, Nature 649 (2026) 1312–1321.

DNA targeting by compact Cad and its resurrected ancestor
R.F. Ocampo, J.P.K. Bravo, T.L. Dangerfield, I. Nocedal, S.A. Jirde, L.M. Alexander, N.C. Thomas, A. Das, S. Nielson, K.A. Johnson, C.T. Brown, C.N. Butterfield, D.S.A. Goltsman, D.W. Taylor, Nature Communications 16 (2025).

Kiwa is a membrane-embedded defense supercomplex activated at phage attachment sites
Z. Zhang, T.C. Todeschini, Y. Wu, R. Kogay, A. Naji, J. Cardenas Rodriguez, R. Mondi, D. Kaganovich, D.W. Taylor, J.P.K. Bravo, M. Teplova, T. Amen, E. Koonin, D.J. Patel, F.L. Nobrega, Cell 188 (2025) 5862–5877.e23.

Unraveling the mechanisms of PAMless DNA interrogation by SpRY-Ca
G.N. Hibshman, J.P.K. Bravo, M.M. Hooper, T.L. Dangerfield, H. Zhang, I.J. Finkelstein, K.A. Johnson, D.W. Taylor, Nature Communications 15 (2024).

Plasmid targeting and destruction by the DdmDE bacterial defence system
J.P.K. Bravo, D.A. Ramos, R. Fregoso Ocampo, C. Ingram, D.W. Taylor, Nature 630 (2024) 961–967.

Anti-plasmid immunity: A key to pathogen success?
J.P.K. Bravo, Future Microbiology 19 (2024) 1269–1272.