Long-range base pairing in Drosophila and human mRNA sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 820-826

  Parsch, John ^a,b   Stephan, Wolfgang ^b,c   Tanda, Soichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Human; mRNA secondary structure; RNA RNA pairing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DROSOPHILA; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031854637     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025987     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. BERNARDI, G. 1993. The vertebrate genome: isochores and evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 10:186-204.
2. CLARK, A. G., B. G. LEICHT, and S. V. MUSE. 1996. Length variation and secondary structure of introns in the Mlc1 gene in six species of Drosophila. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13:471-482.
3. FREIER, S. M., R. KIERZEK, J. A. JAEGER, N. SUGIMOTO, M. H. CARUTHERS, T. NEILSON, and D. H. TURNER. 1986. Improved free-energy parameters for predictions of RNA duplex stability. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83:9373-9377.
4. GALLIE, D. R. 1991. The cap and poly(A) tail function synergistically to regulate mRNA translational efficiency. Genes Dev. 5:2108-2116.
5. HAAS, E. S., D. P. MORSE, J. W. BROWN, F. J. SCHMIDT, and N. R. PACE. 1991. Long-range structure in ribonuclease P RNA. Science 254:853-856.
6. HEINDELL, H. C., A. LIU, G. V. PADDOCK, G. M. STUDNICKA, and W. A. SALSER. 1978. The primary sequence of rabbit α-globin mRNA. Cell 15:43-54.
7. HENTZE, M. W. 1997. elf4G: a multipurpose ribosome adapter? Science 275:500-501.
8. JAEGER, J. A., D. H. TURNER, and M. ZUCKER. 1990. Predicting optimal and suboptimal secondary structure for RNA. Methods Enzymol. 183:281-306.
9. KIRBY, D. A., S. V. MUSE, and W. STEPHAN. 1995. Maintenance of pre-mRNA secondary structure by epistatic selection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 92:9047-9051.
10. KONINGS, D. A. M., L. P. VAN DUIJN, H. O. VOORMA, and P. HOGEWEG. 1987. Minimal energy foldings of eukaryotic mRNAs form a separate leader domain. J. Theor. Biol. 127: 63-78.
11. LEICHT, B. G., S. V. MUSE, M. HANCZYC, and A. G. CLARK. 1995. Constraints on intron evolution in the gene encoding the myosin alkali light chain in Drosophila. Genetics 139: 299-308.
12. Maj globin mRNA derived from enzymatic digestion data, comparative sequence and computer analysis. Nucleic Acids Res. 14:5827-5841.
13. - mRNA surveillance by a yeast antiviral system. Mol. Cell. Biol. 15:2763-2771.
14. MUNROE, D., and A. JACOBSON. 1990. Tales of poly(A): a review. Gene 91:151-158.
15. PARSCH, J., S. TANDA, and W. STEPHAN. 1997. Site-directed mutations reveal long-range compensatory interactions in the Adh gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94:928-933.
16. SACHS, A. B., and R. W. DAVIS. 1989. The poly(A) binding protein is required for poly(A) shortening and 60S ribosomal subunit-dependent translation initiation. Cell 58:857-867.
17. SOKAL, R. R., and F. J. ROHLF. 1981. Biometry. 2nd edition. W. H. Freeman, New York.
18. STEPHAN, W., and D. A. KIRBY. 1993. RNA folding in Drosophila shows a distance effect for compensatory fitness interactions. Genetics 135:97-103.
19. TARUN, S. Z., and A. B. SACHS. 1995. A common function for mRNA 5′ and 3′ ends in translation initiation in yeast. Genes Dev. 9:2997-3007.
20. _. 1996. Association of the yeast poly(A) tail binding protein with translation initiation factor elf4G. EMBO J. 15: 7168-7177.
21. WOESE, C. R., and N. R. PACE. 1993. Probing RNA structure, function, and history by comparative analysis. Pp. 91-117 in R. F. GESTELAND and J. F. ATKINS, eds. The RNA world. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.