Diversity-generating retroelement
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Diversity-generating retroelement
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Diversity-generating retroelements (DGRs) are a family of retroelements that were first found in Bordetella phage (BPP-1), and since been found in bacteria, Archaea, Archaean viruses, temperate phages, and lytic phages. DGRs benefit their host by mutating particular regions of specific target proteins, for instance, phage tail fiber in BPP-1, lipoprotein in legionella pneumophila, and TvpA in Treponema denticola. An error-prone reverse transcriptase is responsible for generating these hypervaria
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity-generating_retroelement
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2023-11-28T16:31:58Z
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