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Authors and Affiliations

1. Institut Pasteur, Université Paris-Cité, CNRS UMR 3528, Unit of Architecture and Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules, 75724, Paris, France

   Rémi Sieskind, Sophia Missoury, Soizick Lucas-Staat & Marc Delarue

2. Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3523, Unit of Epigenetic Chemical Biology, 75724, Paris, France

   Frédéric Bonhomme

3. Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Adaptation Et Diversité en Milieu Marin, AD2M, 29680, Roscoff, France

   Pauline Nogaret & Anne-Claire Baudoux

4. Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Plate-Forme Technologique Biomics, 75015, Paris, France

   Marc Monot

5. Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Human Microbiome Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

   Mikael Skurnik

Contributions

PN & ACB extracted and purified the phage Carin-5 genomic DNA. MS purified phage YerA41 genomic DNA and helped extensively with the writing of the manuscript. FB performed and analyzed the mass spectrometry experiments. MM supervised the phage sequencing experiments. RS & SM reconstructed the genome, produced and purified the DNA polymerase and performed functional tests. SLS performed DNA replication fidelity assays. MD, SM & RS designed the study. MD supervised the entire study. All the authors reviewed the manuscript.

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Marc Delarue.

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