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At the time of writing, the NCBI UniGene database [ 1 ] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/UniGenecontained 96,109 Homo sapiens clusters and 85,047 Mus musculus clusters.
Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.
But from the time of John Wycliffe until the mid 1600s, we spelled it abhominable in the belief that it sprang from the Latin elements ab away from and homo man.
The main USF isoforms USF1 (43 kDa) and USF2 (44 kDa) are ubiquitously expressed and encoded by separate genes [ 9 10 11 ] . In addition, more isoforms of USF2 are produced due to alternative splicing and utilization of different translation start sites [ 12 13 ] . USF factors exist as homo and heterodimers, and the heterodimer of USF1/USF2a seems to dominate, although there are cell-type specific variations [ 12 ] . USF1 and USF2 show different transactivating potential, and USF2 appears to be the functional transactivator of the GIRE complex, although both USF1 and USF2 are important for sustained dietary-induced expression of the fatty acid synthase gene in liver [ 14 ] .
Additionally, the two eukaryotes Xenopus laevis and Homo sapiens have conserved the alanine, whereas the more distantly related species all conserve a methionine.
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