ANCIENT CONSERVED REGIONS IN GENE-SEQUENCES

被引:15
作者
GREEN, P
机构
[1] Genetics Department, Washington University Medical School, St Louis, MO 63110
关键词
D O I
10.1016/S0959-440X(94)90110-4
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Apart from its intrinsic interest, the elucidation of evolutionary relationships among proteins can provide useful structural and functional insights. Recent progress towards understanding the sequences that are evolutionarily conserved among diverse eukaryotes ('ancient conserved regions') include: the identification of several new ancient conserved regions; the development of more sensitive methods for detecting distant sequence relationships; and the discoveries (from analysis of new sets of genes from genome sequencing projects) that most ancient conserved regions are already represented among known proteins, and that a majority of genes do not contain such regions. These ideas are illustrated in the context of an updated analysis of the ancient conserved regions present in a 'typical' eukaryotic genomic sequence, yeast chromosome III.
引用
收藏
页码:404 / 412
页数:9
相关论文
共 86 条
[1]   YEAST SYNTAXINS SSO1P AND SSO2P BELONG TO A FAMILY OF RELATED MEMBRANE-PROTEINS THAT FUNCTION IN VESICULAR TRANSPORT [J].
AALTO, MK ;
RONNE, H ;
KERANEN, S .
EMBO JOURNAL, 1993, 12 (11) :4095-4104
[2]   THE CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS UNC-17 GENE - A PUTATIVE VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER [J].
ALFONSO, A ;
GRUNDAHL, K ;
DUERR, JS ;
HAN, HP ;
RAND, JB .
SCIENCE, 1993, 261 (5121) :617-619
[3]   BASIC LOCAL ALIGNMENT SEARCH TOOL [J].
ALTSCHUL, SF ;
GISH, W ;
MILLER, W ;
MYERS, EW ;
LIPMAN, DJ .
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 1990, 215 (03) :403-410
[4]   FMR1 PROTEIN - CONSERVED RNP FAMILY DOMAINS AND SELECTIVE RNA-BINDING [J].
ASHLEY, CT ;
WILKINSON, KD ;
REINES, D ;
WARREN, ST .
SCIENCE, 1993, 262 (5133) :563-566
[5]  
BAIROCH A, 1993, NUCLEIC ACIDS RES, V21, P3105
[6]   HIDDEN MARKOV-MODELS OF BIOLOGICAL PRIMARY SEQUENCE INFORMATION [J].
BALDI, P ;
CHAUVIN, Y ;
HUNKAPILLER, T ;
MCCLURE, MA .
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1994, 91 (03) :1059-1063
[7]   CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A MAMMALIAN SPLICEOSOME COMPONENT AND AN ESSENTIAL YEAST SPLICING FACTOR [J].
BENNETT, M ;
REED, R .
SCIENCE, 1993, 262 (5130) :105-108
[8]   THE SYNTAXIN FAMILY OF VESICULAR TRANSPORT RECEPTORS [J].
BENNETT, MK ;
GARCIAARRARAS, JE ;
ELFERINK, LA ;
PETERSON, K ;
FLEMING, AM ;
HAZUKA, CD ;
SCHELLER, RH .
CELL, 1993, 74 (05) :863-873
[9]   DBEST - DATABASE FOR EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS [J].
BOGUSKI, MS ;
LOWE, TMJ ;
TOLSTOSHEV, CM .
NATURE GENETICS, 1993, 4 (04) :332-333
[10]   COMPREHENSIVE SEQUENCE-ANALYSIS OF THE 182 PREDICTED OPEN READING FRAMES OF YEAST CHROMOSOME-III [J].
BORK, P ;
OUZOUNIS, C ;
SANDER, C ;
SCHARF, M ;
SCHNEIDER, R ;
SONNHAMMER, E .
PROTEIN SCIENCE, 1992, 1 (12) :1677-1690