Patterns of simple gene assembly in ciliates

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Abstract

The intramolecular model for gene assembly in ciliates considers three operations, ld, hi, and dlad that can assemble any gene pattern through folding and recombination: the molecule is folded so that two occurrences of a pointer (short nucleotide sequence) get aligned and then the sequence is rearranged through recombination of pointers. In general, the sequence rearranged by one operation can be arbitrarily long and consist of many coding and noncoding blocks. We consider in this paper simple variants of the three operations, where only one coding block is rearranged at a time. We characterize in this paper the gene patterns that can be assembled through these variants. Our characterization is in terms of signed permutations and dependency graphs. Interestingly, we show that simple assemblies possess rather involved properties: a gene pattern may have both successful and unsuccessful assemblies and also more than one successful assembling strategy.

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Gene assembly
Simple operations
Signed permutations
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On leave of absence from Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Chisinau MD-2028 Moldova.