Structural Pecularities of Human Genes Which Expression Increases in Response to Stress

Abstract

We studied structural peculiarities of 123 human genes which were previously identified as genes of early response to exercise stress. Compared to protein-coding genes in general, their structure revealed some peculiarities: they are shorter in both coding and non-coding regions and contain fewer introns. This result is in good agreement with the similar results reported for stress-responding genes in other species (yeasts, thale cress, and mice).