Antimicrobial Peptides, Polymorphic Toxins, and Self-Nonself Recognition Systems in Archaea: an Untapped Armory for Intermicrobial Conflicts

ABSTRACT Numerous, diverse, highly variable defense and offense genetic systems are encoded in most bacterial genomes and are involved in various forms of conflict among competing microbes or their eukaryotic hosts. Here we focus on the offense and self-versus-nonself discrimination systems encoded...

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Main Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Svetlana Karamycheva, Dapeng Zhang, L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/24ac9e7b6ea14842b22fbe4432cff67a
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