Properties of untranslated regions of the S. cerevisiae genome

BackgroundDuring evolution selection forces such as changing environments shape the architecture of genomes. The distribution of genes along chromosomes and the length of intragenic regions are basic genomic features known to play a major role in the regulation of gene transcription and translation.ResultsIn this work we perform the first large scale analysis of the length distribution of untranslated regions (promoters, 5' and 3' untranslated regions, terminators) in the genome of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Our analysis shows that the length of each open reading frame (ORF) and that of its associated regulatory and untranslated regions significantly correlate with each other. Moreover, significant correlations with other features related to gene expression and evolution (number of regulating transcription factors, mRNA and protein abundance, evolutionary rate, etc) were observed. Furthermore, the function of genes seems to have an important role in the evolution of these lengths. Notably, genes that are related to RNA metabolism tend to have shorter untranslated regions and thus tend to be closer to their neighbouring genes while genes coding for cell wall proteins tend to be isolated in the genome.ConclusionThese results indicate that genome architecture has a significant role in regulating gene expression, and in shaping the characteristics and functionality of proteins.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  BMC Genomics

• Publication date

  2009-08-22

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1186/1471-2164-10-391PMID 19698117PMCID 2737003
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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