Figure 4
Genes in the yeast mitochondrial genome have unusually high folding potential. (A) Z scores were calculated for every gene in the mitochondrial genome of S. cerevisiae. For alternatively spliced genes, only the longest isoform was chosen for analysis. One gene was excluded because of its location inside the intron of another gene. (B) Positions of the group I (blue) and group II (green) introns relative to the start site are shown superimposed on the minimum free energy plot for the mitochondrial gene COX1 (magenta). Coordinates and identity of introns were obtained from GenBank (accession no. AJ011856).
