A site of intrinsic bending in a highly repeated element of Plasmodium berghei genome

E Dore; T Pace; M Ponzi; R Scotti; C Frontali

doi:10.1016/0166-6851(88)90039-4

A site of intrinsic bending in a highly repeated element of Plasmodium berghei genome

Mol Biochem Parasitol. 1988 Jan 15;27(2-3):201-5. doi: 10.1016/0166-6851(88)90039-4.

Authors

E Dore¹, T Pace, M Ponzi, R Scotti, C Frontali

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Cellular Biology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 3278226
DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(88)90039-4

Abstract

The basic element of the 2.3 kb repetitive family, present in approximately 300 copies in the Plasmodium berghei genome, contains a bent DNA region. Indications of this given by anomalies in electrophoretic behaviour were confirmed by computational analysis of sequence data.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Base Sequence
DNA / genetics
Molecular Sequence Data
Plasmodium berghei / genetics*
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

Substances

DNA