The 5′/3′ UTRs of mRNA are crucial in translational regulation, and several serious diseases are believed tobe associated with abnormal splicing of these parts of the mRNA sequence. In this work a novel method which...The 5′/3′ UTRs of mRNA are crucial in translational regulation, and several serious diseases are believed tobe associated with abnormal splicing of these parts of the mRNA sequence. In this work a novel method which usessequence alignment database searching for detecting chimeric 5′/3′ UTRs with cross-chromosomal splicing is reported.Eight highly credible instances of cross-chromosomal splicing have been found using this method, representing additional confirmation of the existence of cross-chromosomal splicing events provided by bioinformatics tools. Since noconserved motif has been found in any of the eight instances,and at the same time current prediction algorithms produceonly trivial secondary structures at the "splicing sites", it isnot possible to identify any specific signal leading to the splicing.展开更多
文摘The 5′/3′ UTRs of mRNA are crucial in translational regulation, and several serious diseases are believed tobe associated with abnormal splicing of these parts of the mRNA sequence. In this work a novel method which usessequence alignment database searching for detecting chimeric 5′/3′ UTRs with cross-chromosomal splicing is reported.Eight highly credible instances of cross-chromosomal splicing have been found using this method, representing additional confirmation of the existence of cross-chromosomal splicing events provided by bioinformatics tools. Since noconserved motif has been found in any of the eight instances,and at the same time current prediction algorithms produceonly trivial secondary structures at the "splicing sites", it isnot possible to identify any specific signal leading to the splicing.
