Virus-mediated suppression of host non-self recognition facilitates horizontal transmission of heterologous viruses.

Non-self recognition is a common phenomenon among organisms; it often leads to innate immunity to prevent the invasion of parasites and maintain the genetic polymorphism of organisms. Fungal vegetative incompatibility is a type of non-self recognition which often induces programmed cell death (PCD)...

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Main Authors: Songsong Wu, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Daohong Jiang, Said A Ghabrial, Jiatao Xie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-03-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5363999?pdf=render