AbiC was discovered in *Lactococcus lactis* plasmid in 1992 :ref{doi=10.1128/jb.174.22.7463-7469.1992}
AbiC is one of the so-called "Abi" systems for "Abortive infection" discovered in the 90's in research related to the dairy industry :ref{doi=10.1016/j.mib.2005.06.006}. AbiC is classified as abortive infection in :ref{doi=10.1016/j.mib.2023.102312}.
AbiC is a single gene system composed of the protein AbiC.
## Molecular mechanism
As far as we are aware, the molecular mechanism is unknown.