The Entire Organization of Transcription Units on the Bacillus Subtilis Genome

Overview

Journal BMC Genomics

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Genetics

Date 2007 Jun 30

PMID 17598888

Citations 6

Authors

Hirokazu Kobayashi

Joe Akitomi

Nobuyuki Fujii

Kazuo Kobayashi

Md Altaf-Ul-Amin

Ken Kurokawa

Naotake Ogasawara

Shigehiko Kanaya

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Abstract

Background: In the post-genomic era, comprehension of cellular processes and systems requires global and non-targeted approaches to handle vast amounts of biological information.

Results: The present study predicts transcription units (TUs) in Bacillus subtilis, based on an integrated approach involving DNA sequence and transcriptome analyses. First, co-expressed gene clusters are predicted by calculating the Pearson correlation coefficients of adjacent genes for all the genes in a series that are transcribed in the same direction with no intervening gene transcribed in the opposite direction. Transcription factor (TF) binding sites are then predicted by detecting statistically significant TF binding sequences on the genome using a position weight matrix. This matrix is a convenient way to identify sites that are more highly conserved than others in the entire genome because any sequence that differs from a consensus sequence has a lower score. We identify genes regulated by each of the TFs by comparing gene expression between wild-type and TF mutants using a one-sided test. By applying the integrated approach to 11 sigma factors and 17 TFs of B. subtilis, we are able to identify fewer candidates for genes regulated by the TFs than were identified using any single approach, and also detect the known TUs efficiently.

Conclusion: This integrated approach is, therefore, an efficient tool for narrowing searches for candidate genes regulated by TFs, identifying TUs, and estimating roles of the sigma factors and TFs in cellular processes and functions of genes composing the TUs.

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