BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Selection against tandem splice sites affecting structured protein regions

Michael Hiller1*, Karol Szafranski2, Klaus Huse2, Rolf Backofen1 and Matthias Platzer2

Author Affiliations

1 Bioinformatics Group, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Georges-Koehler-Allee 106, 79110 Freiburg, Germany

2 Genome Analysis, Leibniz Institute for Age Research – Fritz Lipmann Institute, Beutenbergstr. 11, 07745 Jena, Germany

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:89 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-89

Published: 21 March 2008

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Supplementary Text.

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Overlap between the protein features.

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Frequency of tandem splice sites in different protein features.

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Selection against insertion of particular amino acids.

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Distribution of the insertion sequences of tandem sites in the protein features.

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Association of tandem sites with specific Pfam domains or clans.

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Avoidance of NAGNAG sites in structured regions of Pfam domains.

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Distribution of plausible and implausible NAGNAG acceptors in different protein features.

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Supplementary Methods

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Unequal distribution of the target mutations between plausible and implausible human pre-NAGNAG sites and between CDS/UTR and order/disorder.

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Average hydropathy scores for introns without tandem donor or acceptor motifs (control introns) and for introns with tandem donors and acceptors.

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