In-frame overlapping genes: the challenges for regulating gene expression.

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In-frame overlapping genes in phage, plasmid and bacterial genomes permit synthesis of more than one form of protein from the same gene. Having one gene entirely within another rather than two separate genes presumably precludes recombination events between the identical sequences. However, studies of such gene pairs indicate that the overlapping arrangement can make regulation of the genes more difficult. Here,...

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