I saw recent overhype of the same flavour regarding the ribosomal "on ramp" hypothesis, with journos saying it was "a new layer of the genetic code". Er, no. It's just an interesting and immediately applicable refinement of transcriptional efficiency, mate.
Cory Tobin <cory.tobin@gmail.com> wrote:
We have known that some transcription factors can bind within exons
for quite a while. Apparently these binding sites are now called
"duons." The part of this which is new is this group, part of the
ENCODE consortium, mapped out where a lot of those duons are located.
And the interesting part is how many there are and how they have
affected the evolution of proteins.
It's a pretty cool study and definitely one of the more interesting
things (IMO) to come out of ENCODE, but Univ of Washington's PR
department is way over-hyping this. Claiming that they "discovered a
second code hiding within DNA" is a bit disingenuous. That honor goes
to Jacob and Monod in the 1960s.
-cory
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