Why are bacteria incapable of naturally producing interleukins?

Leon Islas-Weinstein @Leon_Islas-Weinstein

06 June 2017 0 9K Report

I believe it has to do with protein size, or perhaps it may be due to the fact that introns (which are needed for interleukin production) are much more rare in bacterial genes than in eukaryotic cells.

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