Distinct Patterns of Expression and Evolution of Intronless and Intron-Containing Mammalian Genes
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Shabalina, Svetlana A.; Ogurtsov, Aleksey Y.; Spiridonov, Alexey Nikolaevich; Novichkov, Pavel S.; Spiridonov, Nikolay A.; Koonin, Eugene V.; ... Show more Show less
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Comparison of expression levels and breadth and evolutionary rates of intronless and intron-containing mammalian genes shows that intronless genes are expressed at lower levels, tend to be tissue specific, and evolve significantly faster than spliced genes. By contrast, monomorphic spliced genes that are not subject to detectable alternative splicing and polymorphic alternatively spliced genes show similar statistically indistinguishable patterns of expression and evolution. Alternative splicing is most common in ancient genes, whereas intronless genes appear to have relatively recent origins. These results imply tight coupling between different stages of gene expression, in particular, transcription, splicing, and nucleocytosolic transport of transcripts, and suggest that formation of intronless genes is an important route of evolution of novel tissue-specific functions in animals.
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2010-04Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of MathematicsJournal
Molecular Biology and Evolution
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Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
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Shabalina, S. A. et al. “Distinct Patterns of Expression and Evolution of Intronless and Intron-Containing Mammalian Genes.” Molecular Biology and Evolution 27.8 (2010): 1745–1749. Web.
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0737-4038
1537-1719