Protein-templated DRT3 expands the textbook definition of reverse transcriptases further! Beautiful paper led by Pujuan Deng, Hyunbin Lee, and Carlo Armijo!
Simone Alma Evans
Excited to share our new findings in @science.org on how the DRT3 bacterial defense system uses a reverse transcriptase that builds DNA repeats without a nucleic acid template. Microbes never cease to amaze!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
