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Today• Building a genome
– Nucleotides, GC content and isochores– Gene structure and expression; introns– Evolution of noncoding RNAs
• Evolution of transcription– Transcription & Translation– Recoding and RNA editing– Evolution of the genetic code
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Anatomy of a eukaryotic gene
Rotem Sorek et al. Genome Res. 2003; 13: 1631-1637
Figure 3 Human-mouse alignment of the KCND3 gene, corresponding to RefSeq NM_004980 (from VISTA browser, http://pipeline.lbl.gov/vistabrowser/)
Intronic regions adjacent to exons are often conserved
Number of regulatory genes (R) vs. total number of genes (G)
Circles - Bacteria; triangles - Archaea R = 0.00002G2
Mycoplasmagenitalium
Bradyrhizobiumjaponicum
Phe 12s rRNAVal
16s rRNA
LeuIle
Gln
Met
Trp
Ala
Asn
Cys
Tyr
COI
SerAspCOII
LysATP8
ATP6COIII
GlyNADH3
Arg
NADH4L
NADH4
His
Ser
Leu
NADH5
Cyt b
Thr
Control Region
Pro
NADH6
Glu
noncoding
Structure of vertebrate mitochondrial DNA (~17,000 bp)
rRNA genes
tRNA genes
ATP synthase genes
Cytochrome bc1 complex
Cytochrome Oxidase
NADH:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase
NADH1
NADH2