TY - JOUR TI - Long-range correlations of RNA polymerase II promoter sequences across organisms AU - Katsaloulis, P. AU - Theoharis, T. AU - Zheng, W.M. AU - Hao, B.L. AU - Bountis, A. AU - Almirantis, Y. AU - Provata, A. JO - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications PY - 2006 VL - 366 TODO - null SP - 308-322 PB - SN - 0378-4371 TODO - 10.1016/j.physa.2005.10.019 TODO - Correlation methods; Enzymes; Human engineering; Nucleic acid sequences; Oligomers; Separation, Consensus sequences; Long range correlations; Oligonucleotide size distribution, RNA TODO - The statistical properties of the size distribution of DNA segments separating identical oligonucleotides are studied. For representative eukaryotes (Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Saccharomyces cereviciae, Oryza sativa, Arabidopsis thaliana) we have demonstrated the existence of long-range correlations for the distances separating oligonucleotides of sizes 4, 5 and 6, which carry a promoter signature. This observation is independent of the consensus sequence used by the organism, as in the case of O. sativa (which mainly uses the CG promoter box) and A. thaliana (which mainly uses the TATA promoter box). If we use two parameters to characterise the size distribution separating oligonucleotides, we observe that oligonucleotides containing promoter signatures cluster together, away from the others. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ER -