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The widely conserved Hachiman defense system encodes a nuclease (HamA) and a helicase (HamB) that assemble into the HamAB effector complex, and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>\n                      carries a related variant, AbpAB. Here, we show that DNA polymerase I (PolA) is required for AbpAB- and HamAB-mediated phage restriction, whereas RNase HI prevents AbpAB-dependent growth inhibition during uninfected growth. In a temperature-sensitive\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">polA<\/jats:italic>\n                      mutant (\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">polA12<\/jats:italic>\n                      ), AbpAB- and HamAB-mediated restriction of multiple phages was lost, as was AbpAB-dependent growth arrest triggered by mitomycin C (MMC)-induced DNA damage or by expression of the T4 single-stranded DNA-binding protein gp32. Truncation analyses suggest that the PolA requirement for AbpAB-dependent growth arrest may involve the PolA-specific N-terminal 5\u2032\u20133\u2032 exonuclease domain, whereas SOS-induced polymerases II, IV, and V were not required. Pull-down assays detected PolA in association with the AbpAB complex\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                      ; this co-detection persisted after DNase treatment, increased after MMC treatment, and decreased during T4 infection. In contrast, deletion of\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rnhA<\/jats:italic>\n                      , which encodes RNase HI, rendered AbpAB expression toxic even in the absence of phage. Together, these results identify PolA and RNase HI as host factors that respectively enable Hachiman-family phage defense and prevent AbpAB-dependent growth inhibition during uninfected growth.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:sec>\n                      <jats:title>IMPORTANCE<\/jats:title>\n                      <jats:p>\n                        Abortive infection (Abi) systems can stop phage replication by forcing infected cells to arrest growth or die, but this strategy is risky if it is triggered in the absence of phage. Here, we show that two Hachiman-family Abi systems\u2014AbpAB and HamAB\u2014require\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic>\n                        DNA polymerase I (PolA) to block phage growth. PolA is also required for AbpAB-dependent growth arrest triggered by DNA damage (mitomycin C) or by expression of the T4 single-stranded DNA-binding protein gp32. In contrast, deleting\n                        <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">rnhA<\/jats:italic>\n                        (encoding RNase HI) makes AbpAB expression toxic even in the absence of phage. These results show that host replication and repair enzymes can both support anti-phage defense and prevent Abi-associated growth inhibition during uninfected growth.\n                      <\/jats:p>\n                    <\/jats:sec>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1128\/jb.00140-26","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]],"date-time":"2026-09-14T14:23:53Z","timestamp":1789395833000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/asmj-crossmark-policy-page","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["DNA polymerase I is required for the Hachiman-family anti-phage defense system"],"prefix":"10.1128","author":[{"given":"Saya","family":"Takita","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02evnh647","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University","place":["Saitama, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Reoto","family":"Moroi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02evnh647","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University","place":["Saitama, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haruka","family":"Terasaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02evnh647","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University","place":["Saitama, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yunosuke","family":"Shintani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02evnh647","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University","place":["Saitama, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ayane","family":"Uta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02evnh647","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University","place":["Saitama, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kotaro","family":"Chihara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/001ggbx22","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Drug Development, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security","place":["Tokyo, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kotaro","family":"Kiga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/001ggbx22","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Drug Development, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security","place":["Tokyo, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4664-6176","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Yuichi","family":"Otsuka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02evnh647","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University","place":["Saitama, Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"235","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mib.2023.102312"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41579-023-00934-x"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0808832106"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_5_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1534\/genetics.110.121798"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_6_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41586-019-1605-5"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_7_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2020.09.065"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_8_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2024.09.020"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_9_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/s41467-025-57851-1"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_10_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Tuck OT Hu JJ Adler BA O\u2019Brien CE Lopez SC Hsieh K Meredith C Lahiri A Doherty EE Doudna JA. 2025. 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