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Table 1 Amino acids significantly preferred (-) or avoided (+) at 3' ends of exons across species

From: Finding exonic islands in a sea of non-coding sequence: splicing related constraints on protein composition and evolution are common in intron-rich genomes

Amino acids*†

 

A

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L4

L2

M

N

P

Q

R4

R2

S4

S2

T

V

W

Y

Species (number of exons)‡

+3

 

-7

 

-3

  

-2

-1

 

-5

 

-6

+2

 

+1

-4

 

+4

    

Human (178,438)

+3

 

-6

 

-3

  

-2

-1

 

-5

 

-4

+1

 

+2

-7

+5

+4

    

Mouse (126,268)

  

-4

 

-5

+3

 

-1

-2

   

-6

+2

 

+1

-3

   

+4

  

D. rerio (41,264)

   

+4

-1

+3

-6

-2

 

+5

  

-3

  

+1

-4

+2

-5

    

C. elegans (79,958)

  

-6

+3

-2

+4

-8

-3

 

+5

-5

 

-1

+6

 

+2

-7

+1

-4

    

C. briggsae (74,178)

       

-1

  

-3

 

-2

+2

 

+1

-4

      

A. gambiae (7,930)

    

-2

+1

 

-1

  

-3

   

+2

        

D. melanogaster (48,933)

    

-2

+1

-5

-1

 

-4

+5

  

+3

 

+2

  

+6

 

+4

 

-3

A. mellifera (45,426)

     

+2

 

-2

 

-1

     

-3

+3

   

+1

  

A. thaliana (109,900)

                       

S. pombe (2,403)

          

-1

            

S. cerevisiae (417)

  1. *Indices signify rank order of slope coefficients, separately for negative and positive trends. †L2, R2, S2 and L4, R4, S4 signify the two-fold and four-fold degenerate blocks of leucine, arginine, and serine, respectively. ‡S. cerevisiae terminal exons were retained given the small number of genes with more than one intron (eight).