The limited universe of exons

被引:25
作者
Dorit, Robert L. [1 ]
Gilbert, Walter [2 ]
机构
[1] Yale Univ, Dept Biol, Osborn Mem Labs, POB 6666, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Dept Cellular & Dev Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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10.1016/S0959-437X(05)80193-5
中图分类号
Q2 [细胞生物学];
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071009 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The catalogue of mosaic proteins showing evidence of exon-shuffling continues to expand. The repeated use of exon modules suggests that current protein diversity could have been generated from a finite set of such exon modules, and that the size and character of this underlying exon universe can still be glimpsed in extant proteins.
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页码:464 / 469
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