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Mitochondrial tRNA sequences as unusual replication origins: pathogenic implications for Homo sapiens.
Journal of theoretical biology - 7 Dec 2006
Seligmann Hervé, Krishnan Neeraja M, Rao Basuthkar J
Abstract excerpt
The heavy strand of vertebrate mitochondrial genomes accumulates deaminations proportionally to the time it spends single-stranded during replication. A previous study showed that the strength of genome-wide deamination gradients originating from tRNA gene's locations increases with their capacities to form secondary structures resembling mitochondrial origins of light strand replication (OL), suggesting an...
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