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Bioactive natural products have evolved to inhibit specific cellular targets and have served as lead molecules for health and agricultural applications for the past century1,2,3.

Vaccinia virus proteins A52 and B14 share a Bcl-2-like fold but have evolved to inhibit NF-kappaB rather than apoptosis.

It is tempting to speculate that episome maintenance proteins, found in herpesviruses of various species [41], [42], might have evolved to inhibit pMHC I presentation by interfering with production of DRiPs.

Other pathogens, such as Leishmania brasiliensis, Salmonella typhimurium and Nisseria gonorrheae, have been shown to activate the lectin pathway [43], [44], strengthening the importance of studying the mechanisms that these pathogens evolved to inhibit this activation and complement killing.

What specific mechanisms have bacterial pathogens evolved to inhibit autophagy?

Triglycerides impair leptin transport and may be adaptive, having evolved to inhibit the CNS effects of leptin during starvation.

The XIAP is the only cellular protein that has evolved to potently inhibit the enzymatic activity of mammalian caspases at both the initiation phase (casp-9) and the execution phase (casp-3 and -7) of apoptosis (Deveraux et al, 1997).

As a survival mechanism, it is known that some viruses have evolved strategies to inhibit MAVS function through selective targeting of these functional domains.

Previous studies have demonstrated that viruses have evolved mechanisms to inhibit MHC class I expression by interfering with the function of the MHC class I assembly machinery in the endoplasmic reticulum and by exploiting endoplasmic-reticulum-associated degradation pathways [ 38].

Yeast, our partners in fermentation, have also evolved to produce SO2 in order to inhibit competing microbes.

Microbes evolved to produce natural products that inhibit growth of competing soil microorganisms.