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Month: August 2019

The structure of a highly conserved picocyanobacterial protein reveals a Tudor domain with an RNA binding function.

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Bauer KM, Dicovitsky R, Pellegrini M, Zhaxybayeva O, Ragusa MJ
J Biol Chem. 2019 Aug 7. pii: jbc.RA119.007938. doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.007938. [Epub ahead of print]
Abstract
Cyanobacteria of the Prochlorococcus and marine Synechococcus genera are the most abundant photosynthetic microbes in the ocean.  Intriguingly, the genomes of these bacteria strongly diverge even within each genus, both in gene content and at the amino acid level of the encoded proteins.