1. DNA uptake signal sequences in naturally transformable bacteria
- Author
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Hamilton O. Smith, Michelle L. Gwinn, and Steven L. Salzberg
- Subjects
DNA, Bacterial ,Transcription, Genetic ,Molecular Sequence Data ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,Genome ,Haemophilus influenzae ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Consensus Sequence ,Gram-Negative Bacteria ,medicine ,Uptake signal sequence ,Repeated sequence ,Molecular Biology ,Genetics ,Chi-Square Distribution ,biology ,Base Sequence ,Neisseria meningitidis ,Genetic transfer ,Nucleotide Mapping ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,chemistry ,Neisseria ,Transformation, Bacterial ,Sequence Alignment ,DNA ,Genome, Bacterial - Abstract
The naturally transformable bacterium Haemophilus influenzae Rd contains 1471 copies of the DNA uptake signal sequence (USS) 5'-AAGTGCGGT in its genome. Neisseria meningitidis contains 1891 copies of the USS sequence 5'-GCCGTCTGAA. The USSs are often found in the base paired stem of transcription terminators.
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- 2000