Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on December 7, 2006
Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(1):125-131; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl924
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2007, Vol. 35, No. 1 125-131
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Different levels of alternative splicing among eukaryotes
Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Received September 7, 2006. Revised October 9, 2006. Accepted October 17, 2006.
Alternative splicing increases transcriptome and proteome diversification. Previous analyses aiming at comparing the rate of alternative splicing between different organisms provided contradicting results. These contradicting results were attributed to the fact that both analyses were dependent on the expressed sequence tag (EST) coverage, which varies greatly between the tested organisms. In this study we compare the level of alternative splicing among eight different organisms. By employing an EST independent approach we reveal that the percentage of genes and exons undergoing alternative splicing is higher in vertebrates compared with invertebrates. We also find that alternative exons of the skipping type are flanked by longer introns compared to constitutive ones, whereas alternative 5' and 3' splice sites events are generally not. In addition, although the regulation of alternative splicing and sizes of introns and exons have changed during metazoan evolution, intron retention remained the rarest type of alternative splicing, whereas exon skipping is more prevalent and exhibits a slight increase, from invertebrates to vertebrates. The difference in the level of alternative splicing suggests that alternative splicing may contribute greatly to the mammal higher level of phenotypic complexity, and that accumulation of introns confers an evolutionary advantage as it allows increasing the number of alternative splicing forms.
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