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Complementary oligonucleotides were designed to contain the desired mutation, flanked by unmodified sequence to anneal to the same sequence on opposite strands of the template plasmid.
For MEME, the free parameters of the analysis were set as the following: (i) the occurrences of a single motif distributed among the sequences were zero or one per sequence; (ii) the maximum number of motifs to find was five; (iii) the optimum width of each motif ranged from 3 to 25 nucleotides; and (iv) both strands of DNA were searched.
Of these, the small residues preceding strands 3 and 6 contribute a positive φ angle, which results in turning of the C-α backbone to stabilize the β-barrel [ 62 ] . These shared features notwithstanding, the ancient DPBBs have no conserved residues in their catalytic or substrate-binding sites.
At the end the two strands converge.
The 5' and 3' primers contained Nde I and Bam HI restriction sites, respectively, and were designed to amplify the rec12 +cDNA from the first ATG in exon 1 to a position +142 bp downstream of the stop codon in exon 5. RT-PCR products were cloned by blunt-end ligation into pCR-Blunt (Invitrogen Corp.) and both strands were subject to DNA sequencing (GenBank accession no.