biomolecules Article Phylogenetic Diversity of Lhr Proteins and Biochemical Activities of the Thermococcales aLhr2 DNA/RNA Helicase Mirna Hajj 1,2,† , Petra Langendijk-Genevaux 1,† , Manon Batista 1, Yves Quentin 1,Sébastien Laurent 3, Régine Capeyrou 4, Ziad Abdel-Razzak 2, Didier Flament 3, Hala Chamieh 2, Gwennaele Fichant 1,*, Béatrice Clouet-d’Orval 1,4,* and Marie Bouvier 1,4 1 Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires, UMR5100, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, F-31062 Toulouse, France;
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