| Literature DB >> 17910772 |
Huai-Kuang Tsai1, Cindy P C Su, Mei-Yeh J Lu, Ching-Hua Shih, Daryi Wang.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Adjacent gene pairs in the yeast genome have a tendency to express concurrently. Sharing of regulatory elements within the intergenic region of those adjacent gene pairs was often considered the major mechanism responsible for such co-expression. However, it is still in debate to what extent that common transcription factors (TFs) contribute to the co-expression of adjacent genes. In order to resolve the evolutionary aspect of this issue, we investigated the conservation of adjacent pairs in five yeast species. By using the information for TF binding sites in promoter regions available from the MYBS database http://cg1.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~mybs/, the ratios of TF-sharing pairs among all the adjacent pairs in yeast genomes were analyzed. The levels of co-expression in different adjacent patterns were also compared.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17910772 PMCID: PMC2045684 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-352
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Genomics ISSN: 1471-2164 Impact factor: 3.969
Summary of the orthologous adjacent genes in Saccharomyces sensu stricto species relative to the 5,702 gene pairs in S. cerevisiae.
| Annotated ORFsa | Orthologous genes | Orthologous adjacent pairsb | Divergent pairse | Convergent pairse | Tandem pairse | |
| 6310 | 5743 | 5702 | 1491 | 1474 | 2737 | |
| 4681 | 3857 | 2053 | 528 | 604 | 921 | |
| 4970 | 4642 | 3975 | 1029 | 1051 | 1895 | |
| 3778 | 3212 | 2376 | 637 | 647 | 1092 | |
| 3109 | 2435 | 1609 | 437 | 424 | 748 | |
| Stringently conserved pairs (ratio)c | 94 (6.30%) | 95 (6.45%) | 156 (5.70%) | |||
| Loosely conserved pairs (ratio)d | 942 (63.18%) | 973 (66.01%) | 1667 (60.91%) |
aFor analysis, the annotated ORFs exclude dubious and silent ORFS as well as overlapping genes.
bThe orthologous adjacent pairs of the sensu stricto species are determined based on conservation of the orthologs as well as their adjacency relationship in S. cerevisiae.
cGene pairs with adjacency relationship preserved in all five species for the orthologous pairs.
dGene pairs with adjacency relationship preserved in any three species, or in S. castelli with at least one another yeast species used in this study.
eThe proportions of conservation for different adjacent patterns are similar to those for random sampling composition (p > 0.05, chi-square test).
Figure 1Comparison of co-expression level among three adjacent patterns. The upper figure illustrates the cumulative distribution of pairwise coefficients. The lower table indicates the significance suggested by KS test (p value). A, stringently conserved pairs, and B, loosely conserved pairs.
Figure 2Comparison of co-expression level between conserved adjacent pairs and non-conserved adjacent pairs. A, stringently conserved pairs and B, loosely conserved pairs.
The proportions of commonly shared TFs of conserved adjacent pairs and non-conserved pairs.
| No TF in common | Only one TF in common | Multiple TFs in common | |
| Conserved (Stringently) | 87.54% | 8.11% | 4.35% |
| Non-conserved (Stringently) | 88.91% | 7.26% | 3.83% |
| Conserved (Loosely) | 87.47% | 8.26% | 4.27% |
| Non-conserved (Loosely) | 91.13% | 5.71% | 3.16% |
| Randoma | 98.34% | 1.52% | 0.14% |
a5000 random pairs from S. cerevisiae were used for analysis.
Figure 3Comparison of co-expression level in adjacent pairs with shared TFs to those without shared TFs.
Figure 4Locations of PAC and RRPE elements in 22 divergent gene pairs. A, sixteen divergent pairs with a single occurrence of the PAC-RRPE element; all the genes near the cis-elements are assigned to positive samples (red) except YIL090W-YIL091C. B, six gene pairs carry duplicate elements in their shared promoter region and are all considered positive samples for co-expression. Rectangles represent ORFs, lines between the ORFS are intergenic regions between the pair, and triangles indicate the binding sites for PAC and RRPE, respectively. Ruler at the bottom measures chromosomal distance.