The microgene polymerization reaction (MPR) generates head-to-tail tandem repeats from homoduplexes (HDs). In MPR initiation, one HD putatively aligns two others in the proximity …
Short and long-motif periodicities are omnipresent in genomes of both eukaryotes (Britten & Kohne 1968) and prokaryotes (Hofnung & Shapiro, 1999). Repetitive DNA can amount to …
In this issue of the Biophysical Journal, Itsko et al. present a sound kinetic model for the microgene polymerization reaction (MPR)(1). The MPR is an empirical method discovered a …