Natural variation of immune epitopes reveals intrabacterial antagonism
D. M. Stevens, A. Moreno-Perez, A. J. Weisberg, C. Ramsing, J. Fliegmann, N. Zhang, M. Madrigal, G. Martin, A. Steinbrenner, G. Felix, G. Coaker
The paper analyzes natural variation in immune epitopes across bacterial genomes to reveal a mechanism of intrabacterial immune evasion.
bioRxiv · Sep 21, 2023Microbiology