The Frustrated Gene: Origins of Eukaryotic Gene Expression

Overview

Journal Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2013 Nov 12

PMID 24209615

Citations 26

Authors

Hiten D Madhani

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Abstract

Eukarytotic gene expression is frustrated by a series of steps that are generally not observed in prokaryotes and are therefore not essential for the basic chemistry of transcription and translation. Their evolution may have been driven by the need to defend against parasitic nucleic acids.

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