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Subject: Re: Evolutionary remnants in non-coding regions
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From: bernster at fcrfv1.ncifcrf.gov (bernstein, rm)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 97 11:19:09 GMT
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In Article <343E309E.2861C67C at bc.edu>, Charlie Hoffman <hoffmacs at bc.edu> wrote:
>Here are my questions.
>1. Is it valid to suggest that this indicates the fission yeast gene
>arose from a larger "standard-length" precursor and that what I am
>seeing is an evolutionary remnant?
>2. Are there computer programs that can ignore the fact that I have a
>stop codon and produce a protein alignment that includes this region?
>3. Are there other examples of this phenomenon? I do not consider this
>to be the same as pseudogenes, since my protein is expressed.
well, i think that #1 may be a good working hypothesis; certainly 5'
irregularities arent that uncommon, especially as you proceed thru
phylogeny. for #2, i would use the GCG package, esp the program FRAMEALIGN.
using this program, you can align your nucleic acid sequence w/ a known
protein sequence. in my experience w/ FRAMEALIGN, it doesnt care about 1 or
2 stop codons: theyll just be gapped over. and as to #3, the only examples
like yours that i can think of are unfort 3' examples, e.g., a readthru.
regards, ralph
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