Genome-Wide Computational Prediction and Analysis of Core Promoter Elements across Plant Monocots and Dicots

Kumari, S., Ware, D. (October 2013) Genome-Wide Computational Prediction and Analysis of Core Promoter Elements across Plant Monocots and Dicots. PLoS ONE, 8 (10). Art no. e79011. ISSN 1932-6203

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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24205361
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079011

Abstract

Transcription initiation, essential to gene expression regulation, involves recruitment of basal transcription factors to the core promoter elements (CPEs). The distribution of currently known CPEs across plant genomes is largely unknown. This is the first large scale genome-wide report on the computational prediction of CPEs across eight plant genomes to help better understand the transcription initiation complex assembly. The distribution of thirteen known CPEs across four monocots (Brachypodium distachyon, Oryza sativa ssp. japonica, Sorghum bicolor, Zea mays) and four dicots (Arabidopsis thaliana, Populus trichocarpa, Vitis vinifera, Glycine max) reveals the structural organization of the core promoter in relation to the TATA-box as well as with respect to other CPEs. The distribution of known CPE motifs with respect to transcription start site (TSS) exhibited positional conservation within monocots and dicots with slight differences across all eight genomes. Further, a more refined subset of annotated genes based on orthologs of the model monocot (O. sativa ssp. japonica) and dicot (A. thaliana) genomes supported the positional distribution of these thirteen known CPEs. DNA free energy profiles provided evidence that the structural properties of promoter regions are distinctly different from that of the non-regulatory genome sequence. It also showed that monocot core promoters have lower DNA free energy than dicot core promoters. The comparison of monocot and dicot promoter sequences highlights both the similarities and differences in the core promoter architecture irrespective of the species-specific nucleotide bias. This study will be useful for future work related to genome annotation projects and can inspire research efforts aimed to better understand regulatory mechanisms of transcription.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: rna-polymerase-ii transcription start site factor-binding sites cis-acting elements tata-less promoters basic-protein gene chip-seq data in-vivo pol-ii preinitiation complex
Subjects: bioinformatics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > genomes
organism description > plant
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA expression > promoter
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Communities: CSHL labs > Ware lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: 29 October 2013
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2013 16:59
Last Modified: 19 Jul 2021 14:00
PMCID: PMC3812177
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/28894

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