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Soil To Genomics: The <i>Streptomyces</i> Chromosome
21 Jul 2006
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The 8-9-Mb Streptomyces chromosome is linear, with a "core" containing essential genes and "arms" carrying conditionally adaptive genes that can sustain large deletions in the laboratory. Bidirectional chromosome replication from a central oriC is completed by "end-patching," primed from terminal proteins covalently bound to the free 5'-ends. Plasmid-mediated conjugation involves movement of double-stranded DNA...
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