BMC Microbiology

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A gonococcal homologue of meningococcal γ-glutamyl transpeptidase gene is a new type of bacterial pseudogene that is transcriptionally active but phenotypically silent

Hideyuki Takahashi* and Haruo Watanabe

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Department of Bacteriology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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BMC Microbiology 2005, 5:56 doi:10.1186/1471-2180-5-56

Published: 4 October 2005

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Alignment of the nucleotide sequences within the ggt and ggh genes of N. meningitidis H44/76 [DDBJ:AB089320]; N. meningitidis H119/90 [DDBJ: AB211221]; N. gonorrhoeae ATCC49226 [DDBJ:AB175023]; N. gonorrhoeae NIID103 [DDBJ:AB175025] and N. gonorrhoeae NIID106 [DDBJ:AB175029] strains, respectively. Sequence identity is represented as *, polymorphism within the sequences of the 5 strains is indicated by the appropriate letter, and the absence of a base is shown with a hyphen (-).

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