Researchers reveal bacteriophages' strategy to counteract hosts

PHYSorg
Jul 28, 2023, 2:37 pm130 pts
In the never-ending arms race between bacteriophages and their prokaryotic hosts, prokaryotes have developed diverse defense systems to fend off phage invasions. These defense systems include the restriction-modification (R-M) system and CRISPR-Cas system. The CRISPR-Cas system represents the only adaptive…

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