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Variability of trinucleotide tandem repeats in the MgPa operon and its repetitive chromosomal elements in Mycoplasma genitalium.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Feb 2012
Ma Liang, Jensen Jørgen S, Mancuso Miriam, Hamasuna Ryoichi, Jia Qiuyao, McGowin Chris L, Martin David H
Abstract excerpt
Mycoplasma genitalium, a human pathogen associated with sexually transmitted diseases, is unique in that it has the smallest genome of any known free-living organism. Despite its small genome, 4.7 % of the total genomic sequence is devoted to making the MgPa adhesin operon (containing the MG190,...
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