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    In molecular biology and genetics, GC-content (or guanine-cytosine content) is the percentage of nitrogenous bases in a DNA or RNA molecule that are either...
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    "Actinobacteria") are a diverse phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high GC content. They can be terrestrial or aquatic. They are of great importance to land...
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  • 100% GC content to 978.6005 Mbp/pg for 0% GC content (A/T being lighter, has more Mbp/pg), with a midpoint of 977.8155 Mbp/pg for 50% GC content. The...
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  • selective pressure. GC content varies widely in the human genome (40–80%), but there seem to be large sections of the genome where GC content is, on average...
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    time, DNA with a high GC content is usually less condensed, that is, it tends to appear as euchromatin rather than heterochromatin. GC rich DNA tends to contain...
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  • Grinnell, Iowa GC (gene), encodes the vitamin D-binding protein also known as gc-globulin gc, a unit conversion factor used in engineering GC-content, a sequence...
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    the "right" pairs to form stably. DNA with high GC-content is more stable than DNA with low GC-content. Crucially, however, stacking interactions are primarily...
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    called a Watson-Crick base pair. DNA with high GC-content is more stable than DNA with low GC-content. A Hoogsteen base pair (hydrogen bonding the 6-carbon...
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    of Gs and Cs to As and Ts (GC-content), which led to the hypothesis that thermal stability was a driving factor of GC-content variation. However, while...
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    correlate with GC-content. For example, the E. coli K-12 genome contains 2705 TAA (63%), 1257 TGA (29%), and 326 TAG (8%) stop codons (GC content 50.8%). Also...
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    repetitive content and 40.46% of GC content. Specifically, macro-chromosomes, which represent 88% of the genome, have 39.8% of GC content, while micro-chromosomes...
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  • comparatively still GC-poor, similar to the low GC-content of the base composition translational stop codons like TAG, TAA, and TGA. GC-rich areas are also...
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    commonly referred to as A, G, C, and T. The GC-content is the percentage of G & C bases within a genome. GC-content varies greatly between different organisms...
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    sequence of a gene may change the frequency of guanine-cytosine base pairs (GC content). The base pairs have a higher thermal stability (melting point) than...
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  • several genetic diseases, there were elevated GpC content in certain regions. Mutations in these GC-rich regions caused a variety of diseases, revealing...
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    streptomycetes are gram-positive, and have very large genomes with high GC content. Found predominantly in soil and decaying vegetation, most streptomycetes...
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  • highly conserved among vertebrates. The 3' part of the promoter has high GC content and is thus refractory to PCR amplification. Some of the CAG promoter...
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  • bacteriophage genomes. Every genomic island has the following characteristics; a GC- content that differs from the surrounding DNA sequence, a connection with tRNA...
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    genome of Micrococcus is rich in guanine and cytosine (GC), typically exhibiting 65 to 75% GC-content. Micrococci often carry plasmids (ranging from 1 to...
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    equitans' genome consists of a single circular chromosome, and has an average GC-content of 31.6%. It lacks almost all of the genes required for the synthesis...
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    icosahedral viruses with DNA genomes. The Alphapithovirus genome has 36% GC-content, similar to the Megaviridae, in contrast to greater than 61% for pandoraviruses...
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    CpG site (redirect from Gc-rich area)
    they had a GC content greater than 55%, and an observed-to-expected CpG ratio of 65%. CpG islands are characterized by CpG dinucleotide content of at least...
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    (ORFs), compared to 2.27 Mb and 2,465 ORFs for MC58. Both strains have a GC content of 51.5%. A comparison with MC58 showed that four genes are uniquely present...
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  • gene (GenBank nucleotide sequence under accession number GQ217533). The GC content (38%) of this gene, its genetic environment, the lack of conjugal transfer...
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    discriminated from mesophiles from genomic features. For example, the GC-content levels in the coding regions of some signature genes were consistently...
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  • Polyplacotomia. P. mediterranea has the smallest mitogenome, the lowest GC content, and the smallest intergenic spacer regions of all placozoans. Their bodily...
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  • DNA (greater than 300 kilobases) with a high degree of uniformity in GC content; that is, guanine (G) and cytosine (C) bases. The distribution of bases...
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    sequenced and is 7Mbp in size and spread across 7 chromosomes. The high GC content (70%) makes it challenging to engineer. Sp245 can be transformed with...
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  • methods can be based on either compositional sequence features (such as GC-content or tetranucleotide frequencies) or sequence read mapping coverage across...
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    Furthermore, the GC-content of ribosomal RNA, the traditional phylogenetic marker for prokaryotes, does not correlate well with the GC-content of the genome...
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