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A highly conserved repetitive sequence from Physarum polycephalum contains nucleotide arrangements similar to
L Kruse1, G Meyer, A Hildebrandt
1Institut für Zellbiologie, Biochemie und Biotechnologie, University of Bremen, Germany.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|October 19, 1993
Abstract:
An interspersed repetitive sequence from Physarum polycephalum has been cloned and analysed. The 394 bp sequence is highly conserved and contains several homopolymeric (dA)-(dT) tracts capable of forming bent DNA structures and a 10/11 match to the yeast-ARS-consensus sequence. The repetition frequency of the described sequence is about 3000 to 7000, a number that would fit with the distribution of replicator segments in Physarum.