Microbial Genomics: The Expanding Universe of Bacterial Defense Systems.
Curr Biol
; 28(8): R361-R364, 2018 04 23.
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ABSTRACT
Bacteria protect themselves against infection using multiple defensive systems that move by horizontal gene transfer and accumulate in genomic 'defense islands'. A recent study exploited these features to uncover ten novel defense systems, substantially expanding the catalog of bacterial defense systems and predicting the discovery of many more.
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Bacterias
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Genoma Bacteriano
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Curr Biol
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BIOLOGIA
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2018
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