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ArticleNucleic acids research2004

Centromere parC of plasmid R1 is curved.

Christian Hoischen, Alexander Bolshoy, Kenn Gerdes, Stephan Diekmann

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christian HoischenInstitute for Molecular Biotechnology e.V., Beutenbergstr. 11, D-07745 Jena, Germany.
Alexander Bolshoy
Kenn Gerdes
Stephan Diekmann
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology · AT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The centromere sequence parC of Escherichia coli low-copy-number plasmid R1 consists of two sets of 11 bp iterated sequences. Here we analysed the intrinsic sequence-directed curvature of parC by its migration anomaly in polyacrylamide gels. The 159 bp long parC is strongly curved with anomaly values (k-factors) close to 2. The properties of the parC curvature agree with those of other curved DNA sequences. parC contains two regions of 5-fold repeated iterons separated by 39 bp. We modified 4 bp within this intermediate sequence so that we could analyse the two 5-fold repeated regions independently. The analysis shows that the two repeat regions are not independently curved parts of parC but that the overall curvature is a property of the whole fragment. Since the centromere sequence of an E.coli plasmid as well as eukaryotic centromere sequences show DNA curvature, we speculate that curvature might be a general property of centromeres.

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Base SequenceCentromereDNA, BacterialElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelEscherichia coliMolecular Sequence DataMutationNucleic Acid ConformationPlasmidsDNA, Bacterial

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PMID15528638
PMCPMC528805
OpenAlexW2090381871

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