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. 1997 Feb 1;25(3):523–529. doi: 10.1093/nar/25.3.523

DIR: a novel DNA rearrangement associated with inverted repeats.

D J Pinder 1, C E Blake 1, D R Leach 1
PMCID: PMC146454  PMID: 9016591

Abstract

A novel DNA rearrangement has been characterised that is both a direct and inverted repeat.This rearrangement involves the 2-fold duplication of a plasmid sequence adjacent to the site of insertion of a long palindrome.The sequence of this rearrangement suggests that it has arisen by strand slippage from the leading to the lagging strand of the replication fork as a consequence of the presence of the long palindrome.

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