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

Diverse and highly variable systems involved in biological conflicts and self-versus-nonself discrimination are ubiquitous in bacteria but much less studied in archaea. We performed comprehensive comparative genomic analyses of the archaeal systems that share components with analogous bacterial syst...

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Main Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Svetlana Karamycheva, Dapeng Zhang, L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-05-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00715-19