… current understanding of microsatellite biology in general … microsatellites with demonstrated
function remains very small relative to their overall abundance, some functional mechanisms …

… genomes and SSR functional importance. Numerous … DNA replication, cell cycle, mismatch
repair system, etc. This review also discusses the role of two putative mutational mechanisms…

… to be the molecular mechanism by which MSI-H cells accumulate functional changes with
… mechanism of the molecular change could be any intracellular DNA turnover mechanism …

… regulators of genome function. Here, we examine the mutational mechanisms governing the
stability … Because the full impact of microsatellite changes on genome function has yet to be …

… by the fact that some microsatellites function to regulate gene … The mechanisms by which
microsatellites function are … as quadruplexes or H-DNA, and Z-DNA, a lefthanded double-…

… microsatellite DNA with special reference to mutational mechanisms and their role in
microsatellite … in the MMR specificity and/or function between species can have profound effect on …

… different distribution than microsatellites, and as we will see below, their function in …
mechanisms affecting microsatellite stability. These mechanisms of slippage during replication, DNA …

… of DNA in a human cell. Although the only function assigned so far to human microsatellites
is … The frequency of such slippage mechanisms is very high in N. gonorrhoeae: each time the …

… polymerases and human cell lines deficient for mismatch repair (MMR), we show that the
expansion bias is caused by functional MMR and is not due to DNA polymerase error biases. …

… Microsatellites are stretches of DNA consisting of tandemly repeated short units of 1–6
base pairs (bp) in length. SSRs typically span between twenty and a few hundred bases (…