Chen, N., Mah, A., Blacque, O. E., Chu, J., Phgora, K., Bakhoum, M. W., Newbury, C. R. Hunt, Khattra, J., Chan, S. W., Go, A., Efimenko, E., Johnsen, R. C., Phirke, P., Swoboda, P., Marra, M., Moerman, D. G., Leroux, M. R., Baillie, D. L., Stein, L. D. (December 2006) Identification of ciliary and ciliopathy genes in Caenorhabditis elegans through comparative genomics. Genome Biology, 7 (12). R126. ISSN 1474-760X
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Abstract
Background: The recent availability of genome sequences of multiple related Caenorhabditis species has made it possible to identify, using comparative genomics, similarly transcribed genes in Caenorhabditis elegans and its sister species. Taking this approach, we have identified numerous novel ciliary genes in C. elegans, some of which may be orthologs of unidentified human ciliopathy genes. Results: By screening for genes possessing canonical X-box sequences in promoters of three Caenorhabditis species, namely C. elegans, C. briggsae and C. remanei, we identified 93 genes ( including known X-box regulated genes) that encode putative components of ciliated neurons in C. elegans and are subject to the same regulatory control. For many of these genes, restricted anatomical expression in ciliated cells was confirmed, and control of transcription by the ciliogenic DAF-19 RFX transcription factor was demonstrated by comparative transcriptional profiling of different tissue types and of daf-19(+) and daf-19(-) animals. Finally, we demonstrate that the dye-filling defect of dyf-5( mn400) animals, which is indicative of compromised exposure of cilia to the environment, is caused by a nonsense mutation in the serine/threonine protein kinase gene M04C9.5. Conclusion: Our comparative genomics-based predictions may be useful for identifying genes involved in human ciliopathies, including Bardet-Biedl Syndrome ( BBS), since the C. elegans orthologs of known human BBS genes contain X-box motifs and are required for normal dye filling in C. elegans ciliated neurons.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bardet Biedel RETROGRADE intraflagellar TRANSPORT Chaperonin DNA binding proteins C elegans DISEASE GENE chemosensory neurons proteomic analysis cilium formation encodes |
| Subjects: | organism description > animal > C elegans bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > transcription bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA expression > promoter |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Stein lab |
| Depositing User: | CSHL Librarian |
| Date: | 22 December 2006 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2011 18:34 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2018 19:47 |
| PMCID: | PMC1794439 |
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| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22773 |
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