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Structural characterization of a soil viral auxiliary metabolic gene product – a functional chitosanase - Nature Communications

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Structural characterization of a soil viral auxiliary metabolic gene product – a functional chitosanase - Nature Communications

Metagenomics is unearthing the previously hidden world of soil viruses. Many soil viral sequences in metagenomes contain putative auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) that are not associated with viral replication. Here, we establish that AMGs on soil viruses actually produce functional, active proteins. We focus on AMGs that potentially encode chitosanase enzymes that metabolize chitin – a common carbon polymer.

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