antimutator

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ mutator.

Noun

antimutator (plural antimutators)

1. A strain of bacteria that has a reduced rate of mutation when compared to the wild strain
   • 2015 November 3, “Structural and Enzymatic Characterization of a Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugar Hydrolase from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     The ubiquitous nature of Nudix enzymes arises from the versatility of the Nudix fold which has been evolutionarily repurposed to hydrolyze a plurality of substrates as in the ADPRase, A4pAase, CoAase, mRNA decapping, and antimutator families [1, 5, 8 –16 ].