title: Phosphorylation, an Altruistic Bacterial Trick to Halt Phages.
abstract: Bacterial genomic islands contain hidden treasures. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Depardieu et al. (2016) found, in one of those islands, an altruistic anti-phage system that is triggered by a phage component and induces a phosphorylation cascade leading to protection of the bacterial population.
authors.affiliation: Département de biochimie, de microbiologie, et de bioinformatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses and GREB, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université Laval, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada.
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Labrie
authors.affiliation: Département de biochimie, de microbiologie, et de bioinformatique, Faculté des sciences et de génie, Félix d'Hérelle Reference Center for Bacterial Viruses and GREB, Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université Laval, Québec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada. Electronic address: sylvain.moineau@bcm.ulaval.ca.
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moineau
mesh_terms: D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*; D010766:Phosphorylation