Search for the Origins of Prokaryotic Cell-Division Genes
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Amino acid (aa) sequence segments similar to those of these three cell-division gene products were searched for from PIR Database, by Lipman-Pearson method using Genentyx Software (Software Development Co., Tokyo). Thus found possibly homologous sequence segments were re-analyzed by dot-matrix method (Harr-Plot), and the corresponding base-sequence alignments (m-base-match in n-base-alignment) were statistically evaluated by computing base-match probability by chance, Pnuc(m,n) (Ohnishi, Origins of Life 14: 707-715, 1984). Gene sequence data were obtained from GenBank.
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