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In the Lipmann Symposium 5 years ago I called my contribution Why is insect immunity interesting? (Boman et al. 1974a). At that time we had only discovered the basic phenomena: if insects are given an injection of a nonpathogenic bacteria, they will respond by producing an antibacterial activity highly effective against a number of different bacteria both pathogenic and nonpathogenic. By the use of actinomycin D and cycloheximide we had indirectly shown that RNA and protein synthesis was required, but we had not succeeded in a biochemical characterization of any of the material synthesized as the result of an infection.
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Boman, H.G. (1980). A Molecular Approach to Immunity and Pathogenicity in an Insect-Bacterial System. In: Chapeville, F., Haenni, AL. (eds) Chemical Recognition in Biology. Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, vol 32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81503-4_18
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