title: Short palindromic repetitive DNA elements in enterobacteria: a survey.
abstract: We present a survey of short palindromic repetitive elements in enterobacteria. Seven families are presented. Five were already known (RSA, IRU, 29-bp repeats, BIMEs and boxC), and their properties are updated; in particular, a new composite element is shown to include the formerly identified boxC repeats. Two repetitions, YPAL1 and YPAL2, found primarily in Yersinia, are described here for the first time.
authors.affiliation: Programmation moléculaire et toxicologie génétique, département des biotechnologies, CNRS URA 1444, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. bachelli@pasteur.fr
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bachellier
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Clément
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hofnung
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D016384:Consensus Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D015007:Yersinia / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012329:RNA, Bacterial