Adaptation of the short intergenic spacers between co-directional genes to the Shine-Dalgarno motif among prokaryote genomes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In prokaryote genomes most of the co-directional genes are in close proximity. Even the coding sequence or the stop codon of a gene can overlap with the Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence of the downstream co-directional gene. In this pape...

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Main Authors: Romeu Antoni, García-Vallvé Santiago, Pallejà Albert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-11-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/537