A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome

Abstract Microbes can tailor transcriptional responses to diverse environmental challenges despite having streamlined genomes and a limited number of regulators. Here, we present data‐driven models that capture the dynamic interplay of the environment and genome‐encoded regulatory programs of two ty...

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Main Authors: Aaron N Brooks, David J Reiss, Antoine Allard, Wei‐Ju Wu, Diego M Salvanha, Christopher L Plaisier, Sriram Chandrasekaran, Min Pan, Amardeep Kaur, Nitin S Baliga
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Published: Springer Nature 2014-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20145160
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Wei‐Ju Wu
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Amardeep Kaur
Nitin S Baliga
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description Abstract Microbes can tailor transcriptional responses to diverse environmental challenges despite having streamlined genomes and a limited number of regulators. Here, we present data‐driven models that capture the dynamic interplay of the environment and genome‐encoded regulatory programs of two types of prokaryotes: Escherichia coli (a bacterium) and Halobacterium salinarum (an archaeon). The models reveal how the genome‐wide distributions of cis‐acting gene regulatory elements and the conditional influences of transcription factors at each of those elements encode programs for eliciting a wide array of environment‐specific responses. We demonstrate how these programs partition transcriptional regulation of genes within regulons and operons to re‐organize gene–gene functional associations in each environment. The models capture fitness‐relevant co‐regulation by different transcriptional control mechanisms acting across the entire genome, to define a generalized, system‐level organizing principle for prokaryotic gene regulatory networks that goes well beyond existing paradigms of gene regulation. An online resource ( http://egrin2.systemsbiology.net ) has been developed to facilitate multiscale exploration of conditional gene regulation in the two prokaryotes.
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spelling doaj-art-af647d93246e4a92a0f9b8b40d778dd72025-08-20T02:18:32ZengSpringer NatureMolecular Systems Biology1744-42922014-07-0110711410.15252/msb.20145160A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genomeAaron N Brooks0David J Reiss1Antoine Allard2Wei‐Ju Wu3Diego M Salvanha4Christopher L Plaisier5Sriram Chandrasekaran6Min Pan7Amardeep Kaur8Nitin S Baliga9Institute for Systems BiologyInstitute for Systems BiologyDépartement de Physique, de Génie Physique et d'Optique, Université LavalInstitute for Systems BiologyInstitute for Systems BiologyInstitute for Systems BiologyInstitute for Systems BiologyInstitute for Systems BiologyInstitute for Systems BiologyInstitute for Systems BiologyAbstract Microbes can tailor transcriptional responses to diverse environmental challenges despite having streamlined genomes and a limited number of regulators. Here, we present data‐driven models that capture the dynamic interplay of the environment and genome‐encoded regulatory programs of two types of prokaryotes: Escherichia coli (a bacterium) and Halobacterium salinarum (an archaeon). The models reveal how the genome‐wide distributions of cis‐acting gene regulatory elements and the conditional influences of transcription factors at each of those elements encode programs for eliciting a wide array of environment‐specific responses. We demonstrate how these programs partition transcriptional regulation of genes within regulons and operons to re‐organize gene–gene functional associations in each environment. The models capture fitness‐relevant co‐regulation by different transcriptional control mechanisms acting across the entire genome, to define a generalized, system‐level organizing principle for prokaryotic gene regulatory networks that goes well beyond existing paradigms of gene regulation. An online resource ( http://egrin2.systemsbiology.net ) has been developed to facilitate multiscale exploration of conditional gene regulation in the two prokaryotes.https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20145160EGRINgene regulatory networkssystems biologytranscriptional regulation
spellingShingle Aaron N Brooks
David J Reiss
Antoine Allard
Wei‐Ju Wu
Diego M Salvanha
Christopher L Plaisier
Sriram Chandrasekaran
Min Pan
Amardeep Kaur
Nitin S Baliga
A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome
Molecular Systems Biology
EGRIN
gene regulatory networks
systems biology
transcriptional regulation
title A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome
title_full A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome
title_fullStr A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome
title_full_unstemmed A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome
title_short A system‐level model for the microbial regulatory genome
title_sort system level model for the microbial regulatory genome
topic EGRIN
gene regulatory networks
systems biology
transcriptional regulation
url https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20145160
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