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SUBMITTER: Pericone CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC135236 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 20020801 16
Loss-of-function mutations in the following seven pneumococcal genes were detected and analyzed: pspA, spxB, xba, licD2, lytA, nanA, and atpC. Factors associated with these mutations included (i) frameshifts caused by reversible gain and loss of single bases within homopolymeric repeats as short as 6 bases, (ii) deletions caused by recombinational events between nontandem direct repeats as short as 8 bases, and (iii) substitutions of guanine residues caused at an increased frequency by the high ...[more]