Structural and compositional features of untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs

Gene

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 95-102

  Pesole, Graziano ^a   Liuni, Sabino ^b   Grillo, Giorgio ^c   Saccone, Cecilia ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

3' UTR; 5' UTR; CpG island; Dinucleotide usage; GC content; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CPG ISLAND; DATA BASE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE;

BASE COMPOSITION; INTRONS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EUKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031593155     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00407-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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