Ensemble Methods for Identifying RNA Operons and Regulons in the Clock Network of Neurospora Crassa

Autor: Ahmad M. Al-Omari, James Griffith, Ashley Scruse, Robert W. Robinson, Heinz-Bernd Schuttler, Jonathan Arnold
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 10, Pp 32510-32524 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3160481
Popis: With both light entrainment data (L/D) and free running data in the dark (D/D), Variable Topology Ensemble Methods (VTENS) were used to reconstruct the entire genome-scale clock network involving 3380 genes and their products under the hypothesis that clock-controlled genes are both transcriptionally regulated and post-transcriptionally regulated through RNA operons. The clock network has 12 hubs with target genes surrounding twelve regulators, and 694 putative clock-controlled genes provide linkage between hubs in their joint regulation. There were 71 significant feedforward loops within this clock network, the majority of which involved genes lhp-1 and NCU06108 targeting genes connected with the ribosome and ribosome biogenesis. All 12 regulators target amino acid biosynthesis. The largest hub (768 genes) surrounded the post-transcriptional regulator lhp-1 defining an RNA operon. There appears to be no partitioning of light-regulated genes and circadian genes between the 12 hubs. The regulators lhp-1, has-1, and rrp-3 appear to target putative clock-controlled genes in ribosome biogenesis. The combined hypothesis of 6 RNA operons and 5 transcriptional regulons was successful in describing the dynamics of the clock network with 3380 genes and their products with a $\chi ^{2} =2.133$ per data point for 60,759 mRNA time points. With little known about allosteric regulation of metabolism, the clock network provided a major link between gene regulation and metabolism.
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