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Intelligent Microbe Secretory Weapons
Microbes demonstrate incredible sophistication in making effector molecules that have multi-layered effects. A previous post described how some of these newly created proteins are the exact shapes that alter epigenetic tags in host cells. They produce very particular genetic changes influencing cascades in the nucleus, mitochondria and Golgi that make life easier for an invading microbe. Just as microbes manipulate these vastly complex multi level processes, the secretory mac

Jon Lieff
Jan 11, 201613 min read
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