The AtGenExpress hormone and chemical treatment data set: experimental design, data evaluation, model data analysis and data access

Autor: Kazuki Saito, Kenji Akiyama, Kazumi Nakabayashi, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Hideki Goda, Eiji Nambara, Mikihiro Ogawa, Takeshi Mizuno, Yukika Yamauchi, Shigeo Yoshida, Yukihisa Shimada, Takeshi Nakano, Jeremy Preston, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, Weiqiang Li, Akiko Maruyama-Nakashita, Takatoshi Kiba, Hideki Takahashi, Kazuo Shinozaki, Yuji Kamiya, Masami Yokota Hirai, Eriko Sasaki, Suguru Takatsuto, Ko Aoki, Hisashi Kato, Shozo Fujioka, Tetsuya Sakurai, Tadao Asami
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: The Plant Journal. 55:526-542
ISSN: 1365-313X
0960-7412
Popis: We analyzed global gene expression in Arabidopsis in response to various hormones and in related experiments as part of the AtGenExpress project. The experimental agents included seven basic phytohormones (auxin, cytokinin, gibberellin, brassinosteroid, abscisic acid, jasmonate and ethylene) and their inhibitors. In addition, gene expression was investigated in hormone-related mutants and during seed germination and sulfate starvation. Hormone-inducible genes were identified from the hormone response data. The effects of each hormone and the relevance of the gene lists were verified by comparing expression profiles for the hormone treatments and related experiments using Pearson's correlation coefficient. This approach was also used to analyze the relationships among expression profiles for hormone responses and those included in the AtGenExpress stress-response data set. The expected correlations were observed, indicating that this approach is useful to monitor the hormonal status in the stress-related samples. Global interactions among hormones-inducible genes were analyzed in a pairwise fashion, and several known and novel hormone interactions were detected. Genome-wide transcriptional gene-to-gene correlations, analyzed by hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA), indicated that our data set is useful for identification of clusters of co-expressed genes, and to predict the functions of unknown genes, even if a gene's function is not directly related to the experiments included in AtGenExpress. Our data are available online from AtGenExpressJapan; the results of genome-wide HCA are available from PRIMe. The data set presented here will be a versatile resource for future hormone studies, and constitutes a reference for genome-wide gene expression in Arabidopsis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE