Analysis of nucleotides flanking the initiation codons of histone genes

Copyright information:Taken from "Leaky ribosomal scanning in mammalian genomes: significance of histone H4 alternative translation "Nucleic Acids Research 2005;33(4):1298-1308.Published online 1 Mar 2005PMCID:PMC552952.© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved ( and ) Preferred nucleotides at the −10/+10 positions is depicted as in . ( and ) Occupancy frequency at the −3 and +4 positions, as well as the frequency of each −3/+4 combination, are depicted as in . (A and B), human histone genes (9 , 30 , 19 , 14 and 14 genes); (C and D), mouse histone genes (9 , 23 , 17 , 15 and 13 ). Gene list is provided in Supplementary Table S1.