Our paper identifying a stop codon reassignment in Eggerthellaceae species found in mammalian guts is now out!
Great collaborative effort with Pierre Chaumeil, Maria Chuvochina, and Phil Hugenholtz (@xrefugee13.bsky.social).
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Stop codon reassignment to tryptophan in members of the bacterial phylum Actinomycetota
Reassignment of stop codons is a significant evolutionary event with recoding of UGA to tryptophan being previously identified in only three bacterial phyla, the Bacillota, Pseudomonadota and Verrucom...