Identification of Putative Programmed −1 Ribosomal Frameshift Signals in Large DNA Databases

Table 1.

Summary of Search Results

GenBank database No. of bases searched No. of motif hits Fold > random
Random sequence 2.0 × 107 83
Saccharomyces cerevisiae(yeast) 1.2 × 107 260 5.22
Homo sapiens (human) 9.52 × 107 1055 2.67
Mus musculus(mouse) 2.13 × 107 320 3.62
Rattus norvegicus (rat) 1.14 × 107 103 2.18
Gallus gallus(chicken) 2.37 × 106 57 5.8
Sus scrofa(pig) 1.5 × 106 25 4.02
Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) 1.16 × 107 167 3.47
Viruses 3.7 × 107 1077 7.0

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