Discovery of Bacterial Deaminases That Convert 5-Fluoroisocytosine Into 5-Fluorouracil

Aucynaite, A; Rutkiene, R; Tauraite, D; Meskys, R; Urbonavicius, J

Urbonavicius, J (reprint author), Vilnius Univ, Life Sci Ctr, Inst Biochem, Dept Mol Microbiol & Biotechnol, Vilnius, Lithuania.; Urbonavicius, J (reprint author), Vilnius Gediminas Tech Univ, Dept Chem & Bioengn, Vilnius, Lithuania.

FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 2018; 9 ():

Abstract

Cytosine is one of the four letters of a standard genetic code, found both in DNA and in RNA. This heterocyclic base can be converted into uracil upon......

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