Conservation of the C-type lectin fold for accommodating massive sequence variation in archaeal diversity-generating retroelements.
Sumit HandaBlair G PaulJeffery F MillerDavid L ValentinePartho GhoshPublished in: BMC structural biology (2016)
Our results have uncovered the widespread conservation of the CLec-fold in viruses, bacteria, and archaea for accommodating massive sequence variation. In addition, to our knowledge, this is the first report of an archaeal CLec-fold protein.