The mystery of extreme non-coding conservation (CROSBI ID 280879)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Harmston, Nathan ; Barešić, Anja ; Lenhard, Boris
engleski
The mystery of extreme non-coding conservation
Regions of several dozen to several hundred base pairs of extreme conservation have been found in non-coding regions in all metazoan genomes. The distribution of these elements within and across genomes has suggested that many have roles as transcriptional regulatory elements in multi-cellular organization, differentiation and development. Currently, there is no known mechanism or function that would account for this level of conservation at the observed evolutionary distances. Previous studies have found that, while these regions are under strong purifying selection, and not mutational coldspots, deletion of entire regions in mice does not necessarily lead to identifiable changes in phenotype during development. These opposing findings lead to several questions regarding their functional importance and why they are under strong selection in the first place. In this perspective, we discuss the methods and techniques used in identifying and dissecting these regions, their observed patterns of conservation, and review the current hypotheses on their functional significance.
genome evolution, evolution, cis-regulatory, conserved non-coding elements, vertebrate cis-regulation
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Podaci o izdanju
368 (1632)
2013.
20130021
12
objavljeno
0962-8436
10.1098/rstb.2013.0021