Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes

Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes

Bacteria and archaea are frequently attacked by viruses and other mobile genetic elements and rely on dedicated antiviral defense systems, such as restriction endonucleases and CRISPR, to survive. The enormous diversity of viruses suggests that more types of defense systems exist than are currently...

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Main Authors: Gao, Linyi, Altae-Tran, Han, Böhning, Francisca, Makarova, Kira S, Segel, Michael, Schmid-Burgk, Jonathan L, Koob, Jeremy, Wolf, Yuri I, Koonin, Eugene V, Zhang, Feng
Other Authors: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138387

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