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Sofia Luengo-Woods

@sluengo.bsky.social

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Molecular biology of bacteria and phage 🧪 PhD student @ Gao Lab @ Stanford Biochemistry

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Sofia Luengo-Woods @sluengo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We’re so excited to share our new paper, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity of anti-phage sensors across bacteria (1/6)

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Hyunbin @hyunbinlee0221.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🦠🧬Immune recognition is far more universal than we thought! Our new Nature paper uncovers ≥ 90 families of bacterial immune receptors that senses conserved phage proteins—and reveals how Avs7 repurposes abundant, essential protein EF-Tu to assemble an antiviral immune complex.

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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

NLR-like immunity in bacteria A new study from the Alex Gao lab. The scope of this work is incredible!!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the conserved phage proteome

Recognition of foreign molecules inside cells is critical for immunity in all domains of life. Proteins of the STAND NTPase superfamily, including eukaryotic nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain ...

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François Rousset @francoisrousset.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

A systematic analysis of STAND NTPases and their associated sensor domains in bacterial immunity 🤯 Mind-blowing work !

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Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the conserved phage proteome

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Sofia Luengo-Woods @sluengo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🧫 🧪 We’re so excited to share our new preprint, where we tackle the wealth of structural and functional diversity across antiviral STAND NTPases in bacteria. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the conserved phage proteome

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