Tandem repeats in giant archaeal Borg elements undergo rapid evolution and create new intrinsically disordered regions in proteins

Borgs are huge, linear extrachromosomal elements associated with anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea. Striking features of Borg genomes are pervasive tandem direct repeat (TR) regions. Here, we present six new Borg genomes and investigate the characteristics of TRs in all ten complete Borg genomes....

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Main Authors: Marie Charlotte Schoelmerich, Rohan Sachdeva, Jacob West-Roberts, Lucas Waldburger, Jillian F. Banfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9879509/?tool=EBI