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Wang, X.* ; Haberer, G.* ; Mayer, K.F.X.*

Discovery of cis-elements between sorghum and rice using co-expression and evolutionary conservation.

BMC Genomics 10:284 (2009)
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Background: The spatiotemporal regulation of gene expression largely depends on the presence and absence of cis-regulatory sites in the promoter. In the economically highly important grass family, our knowledge of transcription factor binding sites and transcriptional networks is still very limited. With the completion of the sorghum genome and the available rice genome sequence, comparative promoter analyses now allow genome-scale detection of conserved cis-elements. Results: In this study, we identified thousands of phylogenetic footprints conserved between orthologous rice and sorghum upstream regions that are supported by co-expression information derived from three different rice expression data sets. In a complementary approach, cis-motifs were discovered by their highly conserved co-occurrence in syntenic promoter pairs. Sequence conservation and matches to known plant motifs support our findings. Expression similarities of gene pairs positively correlate with the number of motifs that are shared by gene pairs and corroborate the importance of similar promoter architectures for concerted regulation. This strongly suggests that these motifs function in the regulation of transcript levels in rice and, presumably also in sorghum. Conclusion: Our work provides the first large-scale collection of cis-elements for rice and sorghum and can serve as a paradigm for cis-element analysis through comparative genomics in grasses in general.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
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Keywords WIDE COMPARATIVE-ANALYSIS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ARABIDOPSIS-THALIANA; NONCODING SEQUENCES; GENE-EXPRESSION; BINDING SITES; GENOME; MOTIFS
ISSN (print) / ISBN 1471-2164
e-ISSN 1471-2164
Journal BMC Genomics
Quellenangaben Volume: 10, Issue: , Pages: , Article Number: 284 Supplement: ,
Publisher BioMed Central
Non-patent literature Publications
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
Institute(s) Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IBIS)