It has been shown that proteins of this family prevented bacteria from phage infections by depleting deoxycytidine triphosphate (dCTP), which are important for the replication of viruses. The anti-phage dCTP deaminases have an N-terminal kinase and a C-terminal dCTP deaminase domains, however, the housekeeping dCTP deaminases usually do not have the N-terminal kinase.
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