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Did the loss of sigma factors initiate pseudogene accumulation in M. leprae?

Trends in microbiology - 1 Feb 2003

Madan Babu M

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Pseudogenes are non-functional regions in the genome that have arisen as a consequence of accumulating mutations that either result in the premature termination of proteins during protein synthesis or the disruption of transcription. There have been various discussions of the origins of pseudogenes and the models for their formation, but there has been little input on how pseudogenes could have accumulated in an...

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PMID: 12598124
DOI: 10.1016/s0966-842x(02)00031-8

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