tenOever LaboratoryVirology · Host defense · RNA biology
Pathogens

Bacteriophage

phage

Recorded terms: bacteriophage

2016 · Cell Host & Microbe · lab-led

The Evolution of Antiviral Defense Systems

A synthesis arguing that antiviral defenses across the three domains of life reuse a small set of designs, antisense recognition joined to nuclease activity and later to transcriptional and secreted responses, and proposing that chordates lost RNA interference through incompatibility with interferon.