Reshuffling of Rhs components to create a new element
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Published on: February 4, 2013
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033.
Abstract:
RhsF has been identified as the fourth member of the RhsABCF subfamily of genetic elements. This new element is found in Escherichia coli ECOR-50 and several other strains but not in strain K-12. A novel feature of RhsF is that it represents a new arrangement of components previously uniquely associated with RhsA and RhsC of strain K-12.
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