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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.
(This could be explained in several ways: as an example of antisense-mediated translational control, as two separate proteins on opposite strands, perhaps expressed in different cell types, or simply erroneous data.)
Most members of this group have duplicate copies of the PRC-barrel domain and typically lack the acidic residue in the loop between strands 2 and 3.
The final structure is millimeters in length and contains tens to hundreds of cell filament strands twisted together into a coherent fiber with loops at both ends.
An important step in the recombination process is the pairing of homologous double-stranded DNAs followed by the exchange of DNA strands between the paired molecules.