Bacteria often defend against phage infection by deploying NADase effectors to degrade cellular NAD+, thereby halting both bacterial growth and phage replication. In a recent article in Nature, Osterman et al. identify phage-encoded counterdefense pathways that reconstitute NAD+ during infection, enabling phages to combat multiple unrelated antiphage systems.

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