Meanings
nounantimutator (plural antimutators)
plural antimutators
- A strain of bacteria that has a reduced rate of mutation when compared to the wild strain
The ubiquitous nature of Nudix enzymes arises from the versatility of the Nudix fold which has been evolutionarily repurposed to hydrolyze a plurality of substrates as in the ADPRase, A4pAase, CoAase, mRNA decapping, and antimutator families [1, 5, 8 –16 ].
2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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