Figure 5.

Sequence analysis of SbcC-independent deletions of the PATRR17-long. The head-to-head arrows represent the palindromic sequence of the PATRR17-long. Numbers with plus (+1 to +94) indicate the position of bases from the end of the palindrome (vertical bars) in both the proximal and distal arms. Larger numbers indicate positions closer to the centre. Thin arrows represent the direction of lagging strand synthesis in two different plasmids containing the same PATRR sequence in opposite directions (17L-p and 17L-d). Deletions (dashed lines) are flanked by a pair of direct repeats (arrowheads). A and B are the same deletions with opposite direction, and their frequencies are biased with the direction of replication.