GeneticsProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Meiotic viral attenuation through an ancestral apoptotic pathway
Jie Gao, Sabrina Chau, Fuad Chowdhury…·Marc D. Meneghini
This study shows that budding yeast uses a mitochondrial endonuclease homologue to attenuate a cytosolic virus during meiosis, revealing an ancestral role for apoptotic pathways in viral defense.
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