Protein fossils live on as RNA

Rajkumar Sasidharan and Mark Gerstein
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Rajkumar Sasidharan: and Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. mark.gerstein@yale.edu
Mark Gerstein: and Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. mark.gerstein@yale.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 453, issue 7196, 729-731

Abstract: Pseudogenes constitute many of the non-coding DNA sequences that make up large parts of genomes. Once considered merely protein fossils, it now emerges that some of them have active regulatory roles.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1038/453729a

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