Radically Different Maxicircle Classes Within the Same Kinetoplast: an Artefact or a Novel Feature of the Kinetoplast Genome?

Overview

Journal Kinetoplastid Biol Dis

Publisher Biomed Central

Date 2006 Sep 19

PMID 16978422

Citations 3

Authors

Pavel N Flegontov

Alexander A Kolesnikov

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Abstract

We discuss here some results which suggest that radically different maxicircle classes coexist within the same kinetoplast. These data, although tentative and incomplete, may provide a new outlook on the kinetoplast genome structure and expression.

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