7-Deazaguanine modifications protect phage DNA from host restriction systems

Genome modifications are central components of the continuous arms race between viruses and their hosts. The archaeosine base (G+), which was thought to be found only in archaeal tRNAs, was recently detected in genomic DNA of Enterobacteria phage 9g and was proposed to protect phage DNA from a wide...

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Main Authors: Hillebrand, Roman (Author), Sassanfar, Mandana (Author), Dedon, Peter C. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Environmental Health Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-12T17:42:33Z.
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