Phage biology: Stuck with dU

Yoav S Arava; Oded Béjà

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.064

Phage biology: Stuck with dU

Curr Biol. 2021 Jul 26;31(14):R898-R900. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.064.

Authors

Yoav S Arava¹, Oded Béjà²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel. Electronic address: arava@technion.ac.il.
² Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel. Electronic address: beja@technion.ac.il.

PMID: 34314715
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.05.064

Abstract

A new environmental study has discovered marine phages containing deoxyuridine instead of deoxythymidine in their DNA. The newly isolated viruses are phylogenetically distinct from any currently known double-stranded DNA phages.

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MeSH terms

Bacteriophages* / genetics
Biology
Genome, Viral