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. 2002 Feb 28;3(3):reviews0004.1–reviews0004.10. doi: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-3-reviews0004

Table 6.

Functional elements in UTRsite collection annotated in UTRdb entries

Functional elements Localization (UTR) Number of annotated entries*
15-lipoxygenase differentiation control element (15-LOX-DICE) 3' 94
Adh mRNA down-regulation element 3' 61
Amyloid precursor protein 3' UTR destabilizing element 3' 15
Class 2 AU-rich elements (ARE2) 3' 70
Bruno-responsive element (BRE) 3' 199
Barley yellow dwarf virus (bydv) 5' and 3' 6
Cytoplasmic polyadenylation element (CPE) 3' 5,186
GLUT1 mRNA-stability control element 5' and 3' 66
Histone mRNA 3' UTR stem loop 3' 38
Iron responsive element (IRE) 5' and 3' 121
Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) 5' 7,356
Msl-2 3' UTR control element 3' 19
Msl-2 5' UTR control element 5' 5
Nanos translation control element 3' 1
Ribosomal S12 mRNA translational control element 5' 2
Selenocysteine insertion sequence type 1 (SECIS-1) 3' 1,773
Selenocysteine insertion sequence type 2 (SECIS-2) 3' 355
Tra-2 and GLI element (TGE) 3' 81
TNF-α mRNA stability control element 3' 8
Terminal oligopyrimidine tract (TOP) 5' 272
Upstream ORF 5' 71,438
Vimentin mRNA 3' UTR control element 3' 6

*The number of genes in UTRdb [47] in which the structure is found as of June 2001.