Conservation of gene arrangement and an unusual organization of rRNA genes in the linear chromosomes of the Lyme disease spirochaetes Borrelia burgdorferi, B. garinii and B. afzelii

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Physical maps of the chromosomes of the Lyme disease spirochaetes Borrelia garinii and Borrelia afzelii have been elucidated for the enzymes CspI, SgrAI, I-CeuI, SmaI, EagI, BssHII, MluI and ApaI by two-dimensional pulsed-field gel electrophoresis techniques. The maps contain 42 sites for B. garinii and 32 for B. afzelii. The mapping studies showed that the two chromosomes are linear DNA molecules of 953 and 948...

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