抑制动物基因组中的内子扩张
1Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, Biodesign Institute, and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. s.kumar@asu.edu
Cell
|December 27, 2005
概括
海洋类动物中的内tron位置与人类基因密切匹配,这表明真核生物进化中的早期内tron增殖. 这表明许多动物类的共同的,富含内核的祖先.
科学领域:
- 进化生物学是进化的生物学.
- 基因组学就是基因组学.
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 内子是基因内的非编码DNA序列.
- 内子的进化历史是真核体基因组学中的一个关键问题.
- 比较基因组学有助于理解跨物种的基因结构演变.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究内部子位置的进化保存.
- 为了与人类和其他无脊椎动物的基因比较海洋体中的内子位置.
- 为了推断早期真核生物中的内核丰富的祖先状态.
主要方法:
- 在30个来自海洋类动物的基因中对内部位置的比较分析.
- 在人类和其他无脊椎动物物种中识别同源基因.
- 统计分析不同种类的内部位置相同性.
主要成果:
- 在研究的海洋类动物基因中,超过60%的内子占据了与人类同类相同的位置.
- 人类和海洋类动物的基因与其他无脊椎动物共享的内部基因只有30%.
- 在人类和海洋类动物之间观察到高程度的内部位置保护.
结论:
- 这些发现支持这样一个假设,即大多数动物类的共同祖先拥有富含内子的基因.
- 内部增殖可能发生在真核生物的进化史的早期.
- 对比基因组学为古老的基因结构保护提供了有力的证据.
相关概念视频
Organization of Genes
Overview
RNA Splicing
Splicing is the process by which eukaryotic RNA is edited before its translation into protein. The RNA strand transcribed from eukaryotic DNA is called the primary transcript. The primary transcripts that become mRNAs are called precursor messenger RNAs (pre-mRNAs). Eukaryotic pre-mRNA contains alternating sequences of exons and introns. Exons are nucleotide sequences that code for proteins, whereas introns are the non-coding regions. In RNA splicing, introns are removed and exons are bonded...
RNA Splicing
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Alternative RNA Splicing
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There are five types of alternative RNA splicing that vary in the ways the pre-mRNA segments are removed or retained in the mature mRNA. The first...
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Exon shuffling follows “splice frame rules.” Each exon has three reading...
Exon shuffling follows “splice frame rules.” Each exon has three reading...
Alternative RNA Splicing
Alternative RNA splicing is the regulated splicing of exons and introns to produce different mature mRNAs from a single pre-mRNA. Unlike in constitutive splicing where a single gene produces a single type of mRNA, alternative splicing allows an organism to produce multiple proteins from a single gene and plays an important role in protein diversity.
There are five types of alternative RNA splicing that vary in the ways the pre-mRNA segments are removed or retained in the mature mRNA. The first...
There are five types of alternative RNA splicing that vary in the ways the pre-mRNA segments are removed or retained in the mature mRNA. The first...


