Number of mRNA transcripts of 80 percent of expressed genes in cell

Range 0.1-2 copies/cell
Organism Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Reference Holstege FC, Jennings EG, Wyrick JJ, Lee TI, Hengartner CJ, Green MR, Golub TR, Lander ES, Young RA. Dissecting the regulatory circuitry of a eukaryotic genome. Cell. 1998 Nov 25 95(5):717-28. p.718 left column 2nd paragraphPubMed ID9845373
Method High-density oligonucleotide arrays (HDAs) were used to determine the effects of mutations in these components genome wide
Comments These 80 percent include many essential genes
Entered by Uri M
ID 103011