Table 5 Number of significant motifs identified in the 3′ UTRs of translationally regulated genes.

From: De novo computational identification of stress-related sequence motifs and microRNA target sites in untranslated regions of a plant translatome

Motif length

De novo motif discovery tool

NYdown

NYup

YNdown

YNup

YYdown

YYup

6-mer

Seeder

3

16

3

1

3

None

 

MEME

1

1

None

None

None

None

 

Weeder

None

None

None

1

1

1

8-mer

Seeder

56

62

29

7

22

None

 

MEME

6

3

2

None

None

None

 

Weeder

1

1

1

1

1

1