Short runs of adenines are a ubiquitous DNA element in regulatory regions of many
organisms. When runs of 4–6 adenine base pairs ('A-tracts') are repeated with the helical …

Promoters are crucial regulatory DNA regions for gene transcriptional activation. Rapid
advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have accelerated the accumulation …

Dickeya zeae, a bacterial plant pathogen of the family Pectobacteriaceae, is responsible for
a wide range of diseases on potato, maize, rice, banana, pineapple, taro, and ornamentals …

The Pectobacterium genus comprises pectolytic enterobacteria defined as the causal agents
of soft rot, blackleg, and aerial stem rot diseases of potato and economically important crops …

Oligonucleotide usage in archaeal and bacterial genomes can be linked to a number of
properties, including codon usage (trinucleotides), DNA base-stacking energy …

Knighting in sequence biology Edward N. Trifonov Genome classification, construction of
phylogenetic trees, became today a major approach in studying evolutionary relatedness of …

Regular spacing of short runs of A or T nucleotides in DNA sequences with a period close to
the helical period of the DNA double helix has been associated with intrinsic DNA bending …

The promoter regions of gene regulation are under evolutionary constraints and earlier
studies uncovered that they are characterized by enrichment of functional non-B DNA …

Background DNA word frequencies, normalized for genomic AT content, are remarkably
stable within prokaryotic genomes and are therefore said to reflect a “genomic signature.” …

The reemergence of the Goss's bacterial wilt and blight disease in corn in the United States
and Canada has prompted investigative research to better understand the genome …