Coding region

Coding region

The coding region of a gene, also known as the coding sequence or CDS, is that portion of a gene's DNA or RNA, composed of exons, that codes for protein. The region is bounded nearer the 5' end by a start codon and nearer the 3' end with a stop codon. The coding region in mRNA is bounded by the five prime untranslated region and the three prime untranslated region, which are also parts of the exons. [1]

The coding region of an organism is sum total of the organism's genome that is composed of gene coding regions. [2]

Coding sequence annotation

While identification of open reading frames within a DNA sequence is straightforward, identifying coding sequences is not, because the cell translates only a subset of all open reading frames to proteins.[3] Currently CDS prediction uses sampling and sequencing of mRNA from cells, although there is still the problem of determining which parts of a given mRNA are actually translated to protein. CDS prediction is a subset of gene prediction, the latter also including prediction of DNA sequences that code not only for protein but also for other functional elements such as RNA genes and regulatory sequences.

See also

References

  1. ^ Twyman, Richard (1 August 2003). "Gene Structure". The Wellcome Trust. http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD020755.html. Retrieved 6 April 2003. 
  2. ^ Goto et al., Mami (April 8, 2000). Analysis of CpG Dinucleotide Frequency in Bacterial Genomes with Respect to Genomic Regions and Codon. The Fourth Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology, Tokyo, Japan. http://recomb2000.ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Posters/pdf/112.pdf. Retrieved 6 April 2009. 
  3. ^ Furuno, Masaaki; Kasukawa, Takeya; Saito, Rintaro; Adachi, Jun; Suzuki, Harukazu; Baldarelli, Richard; Hayashizaki, Yoshihide; Okazaki, Yasushi (September 2011), "CDS Annotation in Full-Length cDNA Sequence", Genome Research (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press) 21 (9): 1478–1487, doi:10.1101/gr.1060303, http://genome.cshlp.org/content/13/6b/1478.full.pdf+html, retrieved 18 September 2011 



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