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Radically different maxicircle classes within the same kinetoplast: an artefact or a novel feature of the kinetoplast genome?

Pavel N Flegontov* and Alexander A Kolesnikov*

Department of Molecular Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Vorobjevy Gory 1, Build. 12, 119992 Moscow, Russia

Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease 2006, 5:5doi:10.1186/1475-9292-5-5

Published: 18 September 2006

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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