antimutator

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English

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Etymology

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From anti- +‎ mutator.

Noun

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antimutator (plural antimutators)

  1. A strain of bacteria that has a reduced rate of mutation when compared to the wild strain
    • 2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      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 ].