Article
The sea urchin histone gene complement.
Developmental biology - 1 Dec 2006
Marzluff William F, Sakallah Sameer, Kelkar Hemant
Abstract excerpt
The only eukaryotic mRNAs that are not polyadenylated are the replication-dependent histone mRNAs in metazoans. The sea urchin genome contains two sets of histone genes that encode non-polyadenylated mRNAs. One of these sets is a tandemly repeated gene cluster with a 5.6-kb repeat unit containing one copy of each of the five alpha-histone genes and is present as a single large cluster which spans over 1 Mb. There...
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