Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast.
Understanding the relationship between genetic variation and gene expression is a central question in genetics. With the availability of data from high-throughput technologies such as ChIP-Chip, expression, and genotyping arrays, we can begin to not only identify associations but to understand how g...
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| author | Chun Ye Simon J Galbraith James C Liao Eleazar Eskin |
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| description | Understanding the relationship between genetic variation and gene expression is a central question in genetics. With the availability of data from high-throughput technologies such as ChIP-Chip, expression, and genotyping arrays, we can begin to not only identify associations but to understand how genetic variations perturb the underlying transcription regulatory networks to induce differential gene expression. In this study, we describe a simple model of transcription regulation where the expression of a gene is completely characterized by two properties: the concentrations and promoter affinities of active transcription factors. We devise a method that extends Network Component Analysis (NCA) to determine how genetic variations in the form of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) perturb these two properties. Applying our method to a segregating population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we found statistically significant examples of trans-acting SNPs located in regulatory hotspots that perturb transcription factor concentrations and affinities for target promoters to cause global differential expression and cis-acting genetic variations that perturb the promoter affinities of transcription factors on a single gene to cause local differential expression. Although many genetic variations linked to gene expressions have been identified, it is not clear how they perturb the underlying regulatory networks that govern gene expression. Our work begins to fill this void by showing that many genetic variations affect the concentrations of active transcription factors in a cell and their affinities for target promoters. Understanding the effects of these perturbations can help us to paint a more complete picture of the complex landscape of transcription regulation. The software package implementing the algorithms discussed in this work is available as a MATLAB package upon request. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1b720dd37c804ff59d15c41e0fc38e712025-08-20T02:00:55ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582009-03-0153e100031110.1371/journal.pcbi.1000311Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast.Chun YeSimon J GalbraithJames C LiaoEleazar EskinUnderstanding the relationship between genetic variation and gene expression is a central question in genetics. With the availability of data from high-throughput technologies such as ChIP-Chip, expression, and genotyping arrays, we can begin to not only identify associations but to understand how genetic variations perturb the underlying transcription regulatory networks to induce differential gene expression. In this study, we describe a simple model of transcription regulation where the expression of a gene is completely characterized by two properties: the concentrations and promoter affinities of active transcription factors. We devise a method that extends Network Component Analysis (NCA) to determine how genetic variations in the form of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) perturb these two properties. Applying our method to a segregating population of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we found statistically significant examples of trans-acting SNPs located in regulatory hotspots that perturb transcription factor concentrations and affinities for target promoters to cause global differential expression and cis-acting genetic variations that perturb the promoter affinities of transcription factors on a single gene to cause local differential expression. Although many genetic variations linked to gene expressions have been identified, it is not clear how they perturb the underlying regulatory networks that govern gene expression. Our work begins to fill this void by showing that many genetic variations affect the concentrations of active transcription factors in a cell and their affinities for target promoters. Understanding the effects of these perturbations can help us to paint a more complete picture of the complex landscape of transcription regulation. The software package implementing the algorithms discussed in this work is available as a MATLAB package upon request.https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000311&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Chun Ye Simon J Galbraith James C Liao Eleazar Eskin Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast. |
| title_full | Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast. |
| title_fullStr | Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast. |
| title_short | Using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast. |
| title_sort | using network component analysis to dissect regulatory networks mediated by transcription factors in yeast |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000311&type=printable |
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