A Systematic Ensemble Approach to Thermodynamic Modeling of Gene Expression from Sequence Data
| Autor: | Núria Samper, Christine Rushlow, Bomyi Lim, Hang Lu, Md. Abul Hassan Samee, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Gerardo Jiménez, Saurabh Sinha |
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| Přispěvatelé: | National Institutes of Health (US), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), National Science Foundation (US) |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| Popis: | Summary To understand the relationship between an enhancer DNA sequence and quantitative gene expression, thermodynamics-driven mathematical models of transcription are often employed. These "sequence-to-expression" models can describe an incomplete or even incorrect set of regulatory relationships if the parameter space is not searched systematically. Here, we focus on an enhancer of the Drosophila gene ind and demonstrate how a systematic search of parameter space can reveal a more comprehensive picture of a gene's regulatory mechanisms, resolve outstanding ambiguities, and suggest testable hypotheses. We describe an approach that generates an ensemble of ind models; all of these models are technically acceptable solutions to the sequence-to-expression problem in light of wild-type data, and some represent mechanistically distinct hypotheses about the regulation of ind. This ensemble can be restricted to biologically plausible models using requirements gleaned from in vivo perturbation experiments. Biologically plausible models make unique predictions about how specific ind enhancer sequences affect ind expression; we validate these predictions in vivo through site mutagenesis in transgenic Drosophila embryos. This work was supported by NSF grant EFRI 1136913, MICINN grant BFU2011-23611, NIH grant R01GM086537, and NIH grant R01 5R01GM114341. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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