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flanking regions

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flanking regions
noncoding sequences on either side of the coding region of a gene that contain various regulatory sequences (motifs).


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These data suggest that during horizontal transfer between species and genera, the association of floR with its flanking regions has been conserved (5,6).
Genes on the various chromosomes are composed of these bases arranged in very specific orderings (with flanking regions that mark their end points and regulate their activity), and mutations are, literally, changes in these orderings.
The catalytic core is made sequence specific by two flanking regions that will pair in a complementary manner with nucleotides 5' and 3' of the target site.
 
 
 
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