Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the ColIb shufflon
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Functional Cloning Using a Xenopus Oocyte Expression System
Published on: January 30, 2016
Abstract:
The R64 shufflon is a novel type of DNA rearrangement in which four DNA segments invert independently or in groups. The related plasmid ColIb carries a variant shufflon. The present sequence analysis shows that the ColIb shufflon consists of three DNA segments that are highly homologous to the A, B, and C segments of the R64 shufflon. The 329-bp D segment of R64 is not present in the ColIb shufflon. As in the case of R64, the ColIb shufflon may act as a biological switch to select one of the six open reading frames in which the N-terminal region is constant while the C-terminal region is variable.
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