Looking for organization patterns of highly expressed genes: Purine-pyrimidine composition of precursor mRNAs

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 248-260

  Paz, A ^a   Mester, D ^a   Nevo, E ^a   Korol, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Exon definition; Highly expressed genes; Intron definition; Purine tracts; Pyrimidine tracts; Splicing efficiency

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; ARGININE; BINDING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SERINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONTENT; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33846440912     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-006-0135-6     Document Type: Article

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