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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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2020
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125185 |