Graber Joel H, McAllister Gregory D, Smith Temple F
Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Apr 15;30(8):1851-8. doi: 10.1093/nar/30.8.1851.
We present a tool for the prediction of mRNA 3'-processing (cleavage and polyadenylation) sites in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, based on a discrete state-space model or hidden Markov model. Comparison of predicted sites with experimentally verified 3'-processing sites indicates good agreement. All predicted or known yeast genes were analyzed to find probable 3'-processing sites. Known alternative 3'-processing sites, both within the 3'-untranslated region and within the protein coding sequence were successfully identified, leading to the possibility of prediction of previously unknown alternative sites. The lack of an apparent 3'-processing site calls into question the validity of some predicted genes. This is specifically investigated for predicted genes with overlapping coding sequences.
我们展示了一种基于离散状态空间模型或隐马尔可夫模型来预测酿酒酵母中mRNA 3'加工(切割和聚腺苷酸化)位点的工具。将预测位点与经实验验证的3'加工位点进行比较,结果显示二者吻合度良好。我们对所有预测的或已知的酵母基因进行了分析,以寻找可能的3'加工位点。成功识别出了3'非翻译区内以及蛋白质编码序列内已知的可变3'加工位点,这使得预测此前未知的可变位点成为可能。缺乏明显的3'加工位点对一些预测基因的有效性提出了质疑。我们针对具有重叠编码序列的预测基因对此进行了专门研究。