So basically they discovered a „double-edged sword“
This metal acts as both the bacterium’s armor, forming a type of defense system (an enzyme called MnSOD and a metabolite pool) to shield it from the host’s immune system’s oxygen radicals, but also its weakness
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So basically they discovered a „double-edged sword“
This metal acts as both the bacterium’s armor, forming a type of defense system (an enzyme called MnSOD and a metabolite pool) to shield it from the host’s immune system’s oxygen radicals, but also its weakness