简介:Wehaveappliedconceptsfrominformationtheoryforacomparativeanalysisofdonor(gt)andacceptor(ag)splicesiteregionsinthegenesoffivedifferentor-ganismsbycalculatingtheirmutualinformationcontent(relativeentropy)overaselectedblockofnucleotides.Asimilarpatternthattheinformationcontentdecreasesastheblocksizeincreaseswasobservedforbothregionsinalltheorgan-ismsstudied.Thisresultsuggeststhattheinformationrequiredforsplicingmightbecontainedintheconsensusof~6-8ntatbothregions.Weassumefromourstudythateventhoughthenucleotidesareshowingsomedegreesofconservationintheflankingregionsofthesplicesites,certainlevelofvariabilityisstilltolerated,whichleadsthesplicingprocesstooccurnormallyeveniftheextentofbasepairingisnotfullysatisfied.Wealsosuggestthatthisvariabilitycanbecompensatedbyrecognizingdifferentsplicesiteswithdifferentspliceosomalfactors.