HEC-06 system

traitmech:000467 · CLASS · PROPOSED

A phage defense system in which an organism possesses the single-gene HEC-06 Hma-embedded candidate locus, encoding a GmrSD-like protein, that can reduce bacteriophage plaquing.

Trait evidence (4)

DOI:10.1101/2024.01.29.577857
two GmrSD-like proteins (HEC-05 and HEC-06)

Payne et al. identify HEC-06 as one of the Hma-embedded GmrSD-like candidate systems.
DOI:10.1101/2024.01.29.577857
these were able to reduce the EOP of at least two phages

Payne et al. support reduced plaquing for the active Hma-embedded candidate systems after excluding inactive HEC-01 and HEC-09 candidates.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/List_system_article.md
| HEC-06 | 10\.1101/2024\.01\.29\.577857 | New antiviral defences are genetically embedded within prokaryotic immune systems |

The pinned DefenseFinder article registry maps the HEC-06 source key to the Payne et al. Hma-embedded-candidate preprint.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/Liste_hmm_system.md
| HEC-06__HEC-06 | | HEC-06 | Custom | 450 |

The pinned DefenseFinder HMM inventory records HEC-06__HEC-06 as a custom HEC-06 profile.

HEC-06 loci reduce bacteriophage plaquing

Conservative system-level sketch linking the single-gene HEC-06 locus to reduced bacteriophage plaquing and HEC-06 system possession.

NONMECHANISTIC · The graph captures HEC-06 at candidate locus and anti-phage-output level without asserting native host breadth, the direct viral trigger or substrate, exact GmrSD-like molecular output, or a DefenseFinder detection rule absent from the pinned rules table.

Edge evidence

HEC-06 locus contributes to reduced bacteriophage plaquing RO:0002326
The HEC-06 locus contributes to reduced bacteriophage plaquing as a GmrSD-like Hma-embedded candidate.
- DOI:10.1101/2024.01.29.577857 two GmrSD-like proteins (HEC-05 and HEC-06) Payne et al. identify HEC-06 among the GmrSD-like Hma-embedded candidates.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/Liste_hmm_system.md | HEC-06__HEC-06 | | HEC-06 | Custom | 450 | The pinned DefenseFinder HMM inventory records HEC-06__HEC-06 as a custom HEC-06 profile.
reduced bacteriophage plaquing confers HEC-06 system METPO:2007700
HEC-06-mediated plaquing reduction realizes the HEC-06 system trait.
- DOI:10.1101/2024.01.29.577857 these were able to reduce the EOP of at least two phages Payne et al. support reduced efficiency of plaquing for the active HEC systems.
HEC-06 system is a phage defense system rdfs:subClassOf
HEC-06 system possession is a phage-defense-system trait.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/List_system_article.md | HEC-06 | 10\.1101/2024\.01\.29\.577857 | New antiviral defences are genetically embedded within prokaryotic immune systems | The pinned DefenseFinder article registry maps the HEC-06 source key to the Payne et al. Hma-embedded-candidate preprint.

Provenance

Identifier source: TraitMech local identifier
Definition source: DOI:10.1101/2024.01.29.577857

Parent traits (1)

phage defense system traitmech:000209

Synonyms (2)

HEC-06 EXACT_SYNONYM · DOI:10.1101/2024.01.29.577857
HEC-06__HEC-06 RELATED_SYNONYM · https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/Liste_hmm_system.md

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Discussions and Knowledge Gaps (1)

Open questions attached to this trait. Seeded by just knowledge-gap-scan and curated; see the corpus-wide index.

Resolve HEC-06 native host breadth, sensitive-phage breadth, GmrSD-like molecular output, and rule-level detection criteria before minting narrower HEC-06 mechanism children.

KNOWLEDGE GAP OPEN hec-06-defensefinder-model-gap · raised by codex · 2026-09-29

Attached to causal_graphs#hec_06_locus_reduces_phage_plaquing

Payne et al. support HEC-06 as a single-gene Hma-embedded candidate anti-phage system encoding a GmrSD-like protein, and the pinned DefenseFinder HMM inventory records one HEC-06 profile row. The pinned rules table has no HEC-06 row, and the first-pass record does not yet resolve natural host breadth, phage target breadth, or the direct molecular output.

Evidence

DOI:10.1101/2024.01.29.577857
two GmrSD-like proteins (HEC-05 and HEC-06)
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/List_system_article.md
| HEC-06 | 10\.1101/2024\.01\.29\.577857 | New antiviral defences are genetically embedded within prokaryotic immune systems |
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/Liste_hmm_system.md
| HEC-06__HEC-06 | | HEC-06 | Custom | 450 |
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mdmparis/defense-finder-models/afb0e5a8b466be53586b13266f5d38d98c3ac268/DefenseFinder_rules.tsv

Curation history

2026-09-29T15:27:24Z · MINTED_TRAITMECH_ID · codex
Minted HEC-06 system as a DOI-backed GENOMICS TraitRecord under phage defense system after an ignored-and-hidden duplicate review found no exact live TraitMech, METPO, history, or prior proposal record; kept the graph at single-gene candidate-locus level because the pinned DefenseFinder HEC-06 HMM row is not backed by a pinned rules row; the replacement placeholder is reserved in proposals/metpo_traitmech_v344.
2026-09-29T15:27:25Z · REVIEW_CANONICAL_EXAMPLE_EVIDENCE_GAP · codex
Reviewed HEC-06 system during canonical-example issue 444 enforcement and left canonical_examples empty because the sources support heterologous efficiency-of-plaquing assays and a DefenseFinder HEC-06 HMM row, but not a direct named native microbial isolate exemplar with experimentally verified endogenous HEC-06 activity. No paid research was used.