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Expansion of a chromosomal repeat in Escherichia coli: roles of replication, repair, and recombination functions

BACKGROUND: Previous studies of gene amplification in Escherichia coli have suggested that it occurs in two steps: duplication and expansion. Expansion is thought to result from homologous recombination between the repeated segments created by duplication. To explore the mechanism of expansion, a 7...

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Autor principal: Poteete, Anthony R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2656507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19236706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2199-10-14