Evolutionary conservation suggests a regulatory function of AUG triplets in 5′-UTRs of eukaryotic genes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 5512-5520

  Churbanov, Alexander ^b   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Babenko, Vladimir N ^a   Ali, Hesham ^b   Koonin, Eugene V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES; STOP CODON; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; START CODON;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; CODON, TERMINATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 26944478233     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki847     Document Type: Article

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