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UTRdb/UTRsite

http://bighost.area.ba.cnr.it/srs6/

Pesole, G.1, Liuni, S.2, Grillo, G.2, Licciulli, F.3, Mignone, F.1, Gissi, C.1, Saccone, C.3

1Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Universitý di Milano, via Celoria 26, 20122 Milano, Italy
2Centro di Studio sui Mitocondri e Metabolismo Energetico C.N.R., via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
3Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Universitý di Bari, via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy

Contact   graziano.pesole@unimi.it


Database Description

The 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs may play a crucial role in the regulation of gene expression controlling mRNA localization, stability and translational efficiency. For this reason we developed UTRdb, a specialized database of 5' and 3' untranslated sequences of eukaryotic mRNAs cleaned from redundancy. UTRdb entries are enriched with specialized information not present in the primary databases including the presence of nucleotide sequence patterns already demonstrated by experimental analysis to have some functional role. All these patterns have been collected in the UTRsite database so that it is possible to search any input sequence for the presence of annotated functional motifs. Furthermore, UTRdb entries have been annotated for the presence of repetitive elements. All internet resources we implemented for retrieval and functional analysis of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs are accessible at http://bighost.area.ba.cnr.it/BIG/UTRHome/

Recent Developments

1. The viral division has been added in UTRdb. 2. More regulatory elements are included in UTRsite and annotated in UTRdb entries. 3. Upstream ORFs are now annotated in 5' UTRs. 4. Possible vector contaminations are now identified through BLASTing against VecBase and annotated in UTRdb entries.

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by 'Ministero Universitý e Ricerca Scientifica', Italy (PRIN99, Programma Biotecnologie legge 95/95-MURST 5%; Progetto MURST Cluster C03/2000, CEGBA) and Telethon, Italy

Category   RNA Sequences

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