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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-9-17
pubmed:abstractText
Repressors, polymerases, ribosomes and other macromolecules bind to specific nucleic acid sequences. They can find a binding site only if the sequence has a recognizable pattern. We define a measure of the information (R sequence) in the sequence patterns at binding sites. It allows one to investigate how information is distributed across the sites and to compare one site to another. One can also calculate the amount of information (R frequency) that would be required to locate the sites, given that they occur with some frequency in the genome. Several Escherichia coli binding sites were analyzed using these two independent empirical measurements. The two amounts of information are similar for most of the sites we analyzed. In contrast, bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase binding sites contain about twice as much information as is necessary for recognition by the T7 polymerase, suggesting that a second protein may bind at T7 promoters. The extra information can be accounted for by a strong symmetry element found at the T7 promoters. This element may be an operator. If this model is correct, these promoters and operators do not share much information. The comparisons between R sequence and R frequency suggest that the information at binding sites is just sufficient for the sites to be distinguished from the rest of the genome.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bacterial Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA, Bacterial, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/LexA protein, Bacteria, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Repressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Serine Endopeptidases, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tryptophan, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Viral Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Viral Regulatory and Accessory..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/phage repressor proteins
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-2836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
188
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
415-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-DNA, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-DNA-Directed RNA Polymerases, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Escherichia coli, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Lac Operon, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Operator Regions, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Operon, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Repressor Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Ribosomes, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Serine Endopeptidases, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Statistics as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-T-Phages, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Tryptophan, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Viral Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:3525846-Viral Regulatory and Accessory Proteins
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Information content of binding sites on nucleotide sequences.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.