Javier
Posts in English and Spanish. Occasional jokes about computers, biology and chemistry.
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Cake day: April 27th, 2023
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@BioMan
> even RNA with sequence statistics that are not quite like that of your species can set off an inflammatory reaction, immune system cells seeing RNA inside them that is overly compact and optimized like viral RNA treat them as sources of antigen rather than self
I was aware of the other DNA/RNA recognition/defense mechanisms, but not of the ones I quote from your toot, here.
May I kindly ask for some references/sources? I’m quite interested!