A very interesting role for a cytidine deaminase: a single base RNA modification that converts a protease to a growth factor acting in regeneration in the C elegans nervous system.
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1011367
@cyrilpedia amazing
if you had a time machine, I wonder what Lederberg or Julius Marmur, or Avery / Hotchkiss, would make of this