Coupling immunity and programmed cell suicide in prokaryotes: Life-or-death choices

Host-pathogen arms race is a universal, central aspect of the evolution of life. Most organisms evolved several distinct yet interacting strategies of anti-pathogen defense including resistance to parasite invasion, innate and adaptive immunity, and programmed cell death (PCD). The PCD is the means...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Koonin, Eugene V., Zhang, Feng
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112717
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2782-2509