Infection with Shigella flexneri bacteria is a major cause of infant death. It emerges that S. flexneri evades intracellular defences by releasing a protein that triggers the destruction of members of a key family of host enzymes. See Letter p.378
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MacMicking, J. Bacteria disarm host-defence proteins. Nature 551, 303–304 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24157
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