title: Nucleosome formation potential of exons, introns, and Alu repeats.
abstract: A program for constructing nucleosome formation potential profile was applied for investigation of exons, introns, and repetitive sequences. The program is available at http://wwwmgs.bionet.nsc.ru/mgs/programs/recon/. We have demonstrated that introns and repetitive sequences exhibit higher nucleosome formation potentials than exons. This fact may be explained by functional saturation of exons with genetic code, hindering the localization of efficient nucleosome positioning sites.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Theoretical Genetics, Institute of Cytology & Genetics, 630090, Lavrentiev ave. 10, Novosibirsk, Russia.
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Levitsky
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Podkolodnaya
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Kolchanov
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Podkolodny
mesh_terms: D020087:Alu Elements; D019295:Computational Biology; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005091:Exons; D006801:Humans; D007438:Introns; D009707:Nucleosomes / Q000235:genetics*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D009707:Nucleosomes