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Initial studies identified a portion of the ifkB gene using degenerate PCR procedures based on the shared sequences of yeast, Drosophila , and mammalian GCN2 proteins.
Although previous results of protein titration experiments suggested that KRC/ZAS-C binds DNA in a cooperative manner for a given oligonucleotide, the presence of multiple binding sites might not be favored over a single site in our site selection assay which used a degenerate pool of oligonucleotides and limited rounds of amplification.
Also, a lack of muscle cell shrinking and fragmentation during this process indicates that type II fibers do not degenerate but are transformed into the type I fibers.
Of these 17 pseudogenes, 15 are recombinationally derived (with introns, in tandem to their functional paralogs), one ( Mgstl-Psi ) is retrotransposed (with a poly(A) tail, lacking introns which its functional paralog possesses), and one is too degenerate to classify definitively.
Once a specific sequence has been identified, partially degenerate or multiple oligonucleotides can easily be generated as deemed appropriate for the particular application.