Live virus-free or die: coupling of antivirus immunity and programmed suicide or dormancy in prokaryotes

BACKGROUND: The virus-host arms race is a major theater for evolutionary innovation. Archaea and bacteria have evolved diverse, elaborate antivirus defense systems that function on two general principles: i) immune systems that discriminate self DNA from nonself DNA and specifically destroy the fore...

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Autores principales: Makarova, Kira S, Anantharaman, Vivek, Aravind, L, Koonin, Eugene V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Hypothesis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23151069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-7-40

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3506569/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23151069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-7-40

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