Sensing of nucleic acids is crucial to antiviral defense. Unlike pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) of bacterial origin that are foreign to the host, nucleic acids are vital to both host ...

Up to now, the evolutionary trajectory of the most prevalent CO2-fixing enzyme – Rubisco Form I, has been difficult to study. The Rubisco found in today’s plants and algae has 8 small subunits (SSU) ...