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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Wiley Blackwell
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112717 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2782-2509 |