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The defensome of complex bacterial communities
2023-08-12
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria have developed various defense mechanisms to avoid infection and killing in response to the fast evolution and turnover of viruses and other genetic parasites. Such pan-immune system (or defensome ) encompasses a growing number of defense lines that include well-studied innate and adaptive systems such as restriction-modification, CRISPR-Cas and abortive infection, but also newly found ones whose mechani...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 039aadfe-fa86-564f-ad6f-f65cfd179c33
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.08.12.553040
