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SUBMITTER: Mikhailov KV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6649704 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mikhailov Kirill V KV Efeykin Boris D BD Panchin Alexander Y AY Knorre Dmitry A DA Logacheva Maria D MD Penin Aleksey A AA Muntyan Maria S MS Nikitin Mikhail A MA Popova Olga V OV Zanegina Olga N ON Vyssokikh Mikhail Y MY Spiridonov Sergei E SE Aleoshin Vladimir V VV Panchin Yuri V YV
Nucleic acids research 20190701 13
Inverted repeats are common DNA elements, but they rarely overlap with protein-coding sequences due to the ensuing conflict with the structure and function of the encoded protein. We discovered numerous perfect inverted repeats of considerable length (up to 284 bp) embedded within the protein-coding genes in mitochondrial genomes of four Nematomorpha species. Strikingly, both arms of the inverted repeats encode conserved regions of the amino acid sequence. We confirmed enzymatic activity of the ...[more]