| Literature DB >> 19698117 |
Tamir Tuller1, Eytan Ruppin, Martin Kupiec.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: During evolution selection forces such as changing environments shape the architecture of genomes. The distribution of genes along chromosomes and the length of intragenic regions are basic genomic features known to play a major role in the regulation of gene transcription and translation.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19698117 PMCID: PMC2737003 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-391
Source DB: PubMed Journal: BMC Genomics ISSN: 1471-2164 Impact factor: 3.969
Figure 1Schematic representation of the definition of Promoters, 5'UTRs, 3'UTRs, and terminators. Two types of promoters appear in parts 1) and 2) Two types of terminators appear in parts 3) and 4). Note that that in cases 1) and 3) the terminator of one gene is the promoter of the next gene. Thus, in the case of terminators, we treated this category separately from the converging case [4].
GO groups whose genes tend to be close to neighbouring genes (left) and GO groups that tend to be isolated from other genes (right).
| flocculation via cell wall protein-carbohydrate interaction (p < 0.001) | |
| glucose transmembrane transporter activity (p = 0.001) | |
| DNA helicase activity (p = 0.002) | |
| fructose transmembrane transporter activity (p = 0.002) | |
| DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity (p < 0.001) | mannose transmembrane transporter activity (p = 0.002) |
| RNA-directed DNA polymerase activity (p < 0.001) | telomere maintenance via recombination (p = 0.003) |
| ribonuclease activity (p < 0.001) | helicase activity (p = 0.003) |
| Spliceosome (p < 0.001) | hexose transport (p = 0.003) |
| peptidase activity (p < 0.001) | endonuclease activity(p = 0.004) |
| RNA splicing factor activity, transesterification mechanism (p < 0.001) | --- |
| U4/U6 × U5 tri-snRNP complex (p < 0.001) | --- |
| Group I intron splicing (p = 0.001) | --- |
| tRNA methylation (p = 0.002) | --- |
| peroxisomal membrane (p = 0.003) | --- |
| DNA-dependent DNA replication (p = 0.004) | --- |
| tRNA splicing (p = 0.004) | --- |
| mRNA catabolic process (p = 0.004) | --- |
| Cytokinesis (p = 0.005) | --- |
| snRNP U1 (p = 0.005) | --- |
Corresponding p-values appear in brackets. GO groups whose p-values are significant after FDR correction (Materials and methods) are in bold.
See Additional file 1 for more results and p-values and the Materials and methods for details about how these p-values were computed.
Figure 2Length distribution of untranslated regions.
Summary of the cellular functions (Biological Process ontology) with extreme promoters, UTRs and terminators in S. cerevisiae.
| 1. Response to DNA damage stimulus | 1. rRNA processing | |||
| 2. DNA repair | ||||
| 3. nuclear mRNA splicing, via spliceosome | ||||
| 4. protein transport | ||||
| 5. RNA elongation from RNA polymerase II promoter | ||||
| 6. RNA splicing | ||||
| 7. mRNA processing | ||||
| 8. chromatin modification | ||||
| 9. DNA recombination | ||||
| 1. regulation of transcripti on, DNA-dependent | -- | |||
All the p-values corresponding to the GO groups presented in this table are lower than 0.0048. The length distribution of all functional categories is presented in Additional file 3, technical details appear in the Materials and Methods section.
Spearman correlations (and p-values) between the lengths of Promoters, UTR5s, UTR3s, and Terminator.
| ORF | Promoter | 5' UTR | 3' UTR | Terminator | |
| ORF | -------- | -0.032 | |||
| Promoter | -------- | --------- | |||
| 5' UTR | -------- | --------- | --------- | ||
| 3' UTR | -------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | |
| Terminator | -------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- |
Significant correlations after FDR correction are shown in bold.
Relations between the lengths of Promoters, 5'UTRs, 3'UTRs, and various parameters.
| 0.099 | |||||
| 0.034 | |||||
| 0.039 | |||||
| 0.01 | 0.036 | ||||
| -0.02 | 0.035 | ||||
| -0.034 | 0.051 | 0.031 | -0.011 | ||
| 0.036 | |||||
| -0.0012 | -0.02 | -0.028 | |||
| 0.049 | -0.018 | -0.044 | |||
We correlations that are significant (both empirical p-value < 0.01 and p-value < 0.01, and FDR correction) are bolded. The p-values appear in Additional file 4.