Conservation of the Exon-Intron Structure of Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA Genes in Eutherian Mammals
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Department of Genetics, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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Information Engineering Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
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Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Muenster, Muenster 48149, Germany
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Computational Biology Branch, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Academic Editors: Alexander Bolshoy and David Deamer
Life 2016, 6(3), 27; https://doi.org/10.3390/life6030027
Received: 18 March 2016
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Revised: 28 June 2016
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Accepted: 12 July 2016
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Published: 15 July 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure and Evolution of Genome)
The abundance of mammalian long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) genes is high, yet their functions remain largely unknown. One possible way to study this important question is to use large-scale comparisons of various characteristics of lincRNA with those of protein-coding genes for which a large body of functional information is available. A prominent feature of mammalian protein-coding genes is the high evolutionary conservation of the exon-intron structure. Comparative analysis of putative intron positions in lincRNA genes from various mammalian genomes suggests that some lincRNA introns have been conserved for over 100 million years, thus the primary and/or secondary structure of these molecules is likely to be functionally important.
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Keywords:
lincRNA; exon; intron; non-coding RNA; genomic alignments; intron gain; intron loss
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Chernikova, D.; Managadze, D.; Glazko, G.V.; Makalowski, W.; Rogozin, I.B. Conservation of the Exon-Intron Structure of Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA Genes in Eutherian Mammals. Life 2016, 6, 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/life6030027
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Chernikova D, Managadze D, Glazko GV, Makalowski W, Rogozin IB. Conservation of the Exon-Intron Structure of Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA Genes in Eutherian Mammals. Life. 2016; 6(3):27. https://doi.org/10.3390/life6030027
Chicago/Turabian StyleChernikova, Diana, David Managadze, Galina V. Glazko, Wojciech Makalowski, and Igor B. Rogozin. 2016. "Conservation of the Exon-Intron Structure of Long Intergenic Non-Coding RNA Genes in Eutherian Mammals" Life 6, no. 3: 27. https://doi.org/10.3390/life6030027
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