Table 3.
Examples of 5' UTR sequences with highly stable stem-loop structures
| UTR | EMBL | Gene description | UTR length | Stem length | ΔG |
| 5hsa007030 | X12949 | Ret | 963 | 129 | -125.4 |
| 5hsa034512 | AF274954 | PNAS-29 | 323 | 95 | -71.7 |
| 5hsa019215 | AF139980 | LW-1 (LW-1) | 716 | 72 | -66.1 |
| 5hsa019416 | AF152961 | Chromatin-specific transcription elongation factor | 291 | 97 | -61.9 |
| 5hsa022262 | S95936 | Transferrin | 79 | 65 | -60.1 |
| 5hsa000763 | U19144 | GAGE-3 protein | 99 | 72 | -54.6 |
| 5hsa022576 | AF116649 | PRO0566 | 2,011 | 72 | -51.6 |
Highly stable structures are defined as those with ΔG ≤ -50 kcal/mol. Free energy was calculated with 'foldrna' program (GCG [53]) on stem-loop elements found with the PatSearch program on human UTRdb [47]. Stem length represents the total number of nucleotides involved in the structure.