Elucidation of the sequential transcriptional activity in Escherichia coli using time-series RNA-seq data

Functional genomics and gene regulation inference has readily expanded our knowledge and understanding of gene interactions with regards to expression regulation. With the advancement of transcriptome sequencing in time-series comes the ability to study the sequential changes of the transcriptome. H...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bioinformation 2017-01, Vol.13 (1), p.25-30
Hauptverfasser: Wong, Pui Shan, Tashiro, Kosuke, Kuhara, Satoru, Aburatani, Sachiyo
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Zusammenfassung:Functional genomics and gene regulation inference has readily expanded our knowledge and understanding of gene interactions with regards to expression regulation. With the advancement of transcriptome sequencing in time-series comes the ability to study the sequential changes of the transcriptome. Here, we present a new method to augment regulation networks accumulated in literature with transcriptome data gathered from time-series experiments to construct a sequential representation of transcription factor activity. We apply our method on a time-series RNA-Seq data set of Escherichia coli as it transitions from growth to stationary phase over five hours and investigate the various activity in gene regulation process by taking advantage of the correlation between regulatory gene pairs to examine their activity on a dynamic network. We analyse the changes in metabolic activity of the pagP gene and associated transcription factors during phase transition, and visualize the sequential transcriptional activity to describe the change in metabolic pathway activity originating from the pagP transcription factor, phoP. We observe a shift from amino acid and nucleic acid metabolism, to energy metabolism during the transition to stationary phase in E. coli.
ISSN:0973-2063
0973-8894
0973-2063
DOI:10.6026/97320630013025