Biology – Quantitative Biology – Quantitative Methods
Scientific paper
2010-11-09
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Quantitative Methods
8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
The nucleotide composition of human genes with a special emphasis on transcription-related strand asymmetries is analyzed. Such asymmetries may be associated with different mutational rates in two principal factors. The first one is transcription-coupled repair and the second one is the selective pressure related to optimization of the translation efficiency. The former factor affects both coding and noncoding regions of a gene, while the latter factor is applicable only to the coding regions. Compositional asymmetries calculated at the third position of a codon in coding (exons) and noncoding (introns, UTR, upstream and downstream) regions of human genes are compared. It is shown that the keto-skew (excess of the frequencies of G and T nucleotides over the frequencies of A and C nucleotides in the same strand) is most pronounced in intronic regions, less pronounced in coding regions, and has near zero values in untranscribed regions. The keto-skew correlates with the level of gene expression in germ-line cells in both introns and exons. We propose to use the results of our analysis to estimate the contribution of different evolutionary factors to the transcription-related compositional biases.
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