Co-option and Detoxification of a Phage Lysin for Housekeeping Function
A. M. Randich, D. T. Kysela, C. Morlot, Y. V. Brun
The paper reports on a phage gene that lost its toxicity and became a housekeeping function in bacteria, specifically in the Caulobacterales order.
bioRxiv · Nov 13, 2018Microbiology