Role for Retrons: Encoding Phage-Defending Toxin/Antitoxin Systems - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Researchers develop an approach to leverage the function of an elusive small satellite DNA molecule and to harness its immune defense powers.

Although retrons have been known, for decades, to be bacterial genetic retroelements that encode a reverse transcriptase (RT) that uses small RNA as a template to produce multicopy single-stranded DN… [+4220 chars]

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