Evolution of the deaminase fold and multiple origins of eukaryotic editing and mutagenic nucleic acid deaminases from bacterial toxin systems.

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Published in Nucleic Acids Res on September 03, 2011

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Lakshminarayan M Iyer1, Dapeng Zhang, Igor B Rogozin, L Aravind

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1: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA.

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