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A bungee consists of a number of strands of rubber bound together in a tough woven cloth covering.
The protections for both strands are consistent with the binding of multiple molecules of NarL to the DNA.
To estimate the number of 5' versus 3' reads, we examined the 4,198 ESTs with detectable homology on either sense or antisense strands at time of submission (BLASTX search versus the SWIR non-redundant protein database, Sanger Centre).
These include a doublet comprised of a small and a polar residues preceding each of strands 3 and 6, a small residue after strand 2 (proline in the DDRP β' subunit and RDRP), bulky and polar residues in strand 3, a small residue immediately downstream of strand 5, a bulky residue in the loop between strands 5 and 6, and two hydrophobic residues in strand 6 (Fig.
Complementary sequences between distinct RNAs from overlapping genes on opposite strands have previously been reported in eukaryotes and have been implicated in regulating gene expression (for reviews see [ 46, 47]).