Viral origin of eukaryotic type IIA DNA topoisomerases
J. Guglielmini, M. Gaia, V. Da Cunha, A. Criscuolo, M. Krupovic, P. Forterre
This study investigates the origin of eukaryotic type IIA DNA topoisomerases by analyzing phylogenetic relationships between viral and cellular homologs, finding that they likely originated from Nucleocytoviricota viruses.
bioRxiv · Apr 12, 2022Evolutionary Biology