Comparative analysis of orthologous eukaryotic mRNAs: Potential hidden functional signals

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1774-1782

  Shabalina, Svetlana A ^a   Ogurtsov, Aleksey A ^a   Rogozin, Igor B ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^a   Lipman, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EUKARYOTE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; START CODON; STOP CODON; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; RAT; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CODON, INITIATOR; CODON, TERMINATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; POLYADENYLATION; RATS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; YEASTS;

EID: 3042668591     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh313     Document Type: Article

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