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A versatile palindromic amphipathic repeat coding sequence horizontally distributed among diverse bacterial and eucaryotic microbes.
BMC genomics - 13 Jul 2010
Röske Kerstin, Foecking Mark F, Yooseph Shibu, Glass John I, Calcutt Michael J, Wise Kim S
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BACKGROUND: Intragenic tandem repeats occur throughout all domains of life and impart functional and structural variability to diverse translation products. Repeat proteins confer distinctive surface phenotypes to many unicellular organisms, including those with minimal genomes such as the wall-less bacterial monoderms, Mollicutes. One such repeat pattern in this clade is distributed in a manner suggesting its...
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