Rockefeller University: How Bacteria Recognize Viral Invasion and Activate Immune Defenses
November 16, 2023
November 16, 2023
NEW YORK, Nov. 16 (TNSres) -- Rockefeller University issued the following news:
There's no organism on earth that lives free of threat--including bacteria. Predatory viruses known as phages are among their most dire foes, infiltrating their cells to replicate and take over. Bacteria have evolved an array of strategies to counter these infections, but how they first spot an invader in their midst has long been a mystery.
Now researchers in the Laboratory of Bacteriology . . .
There's no organism on earth that lives free of threat--including bacteria. Predatory viruses known as phages are among their most dire foes, infiltrating their cells to replicate and take over. Bacteria have evolved an array of strategies to counter these infections, but how they first spot an invader in their midst has long been a mystery.
Now researchers in the Laboratory of Bacteriology . . .