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TIL that our cells contain mitochondria which evolved from bacteria billions of years ago. Mitochondria still make bacterial-like proteins which sometimes fool our immune cells to overreact and cause excessive inflammation or autoimmune disease.

u/sciencerules1 — 8 days ago

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Evolutionary bacterial origin of mitochondria may hold clues to their role in inflammation: Mitochondrial proteins activate receptors of immune cells during lung injury

elifesciences.org

u/sciencerules1 — 8 days ago