Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.

Extrinsic and intrinsic regulators are responsible for the tight control of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which differentiate into all blood cell lineages. To understand the fundamental basis of HSC biology, we focused on differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in long-term and short-term HSCs, whi...

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Main Authors: Sung-Joon Park, Terumasa Umemoto, Mihoko Saito-Adachi, Yoshiko Shiratsuchi, Masayuki Yamato, Kenta Nakai
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
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Terumasa Umemoto
Mihoko Saito-Adachi
Yoshiko Shiratsuchi
Masayuki Yamato
Kenta Nakai
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Yoshiko Shiratsuchi
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Kenta Nakai
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description Extrinsic and intrinsic regulators are responsible for the tight control of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which differentiate into all blood cell lineages. To understand the fundamental basis of HSC biology, we focused on differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in long-term and short-term HSCs, which are closely related in terms of cell development but substantially differ in their stem cell capacity. To analyze the transcriptional regulation of the DEGs identified in the novel transcriptome profiles obtained by our RNA-seq analysis, we developed a computational method to model the linear relationship between gene expression and the features of putative regulatory elements. The transcriptional regulation modes characterized here suggest the importance of transcription factors (TFs) that are expressed at steady state or at low levels. Remarkably, we found that 24 differentially expressed TFs targeting 21 putative TF-binding sites contributed significantly to transcriptional regulation. These TFs tended to be modulated by other nondifferentially expressed TFs, suggesting that HSCs can achieve flexible and rapid responses via the control of nondifferentially expressed TFs through a highly complex regulatory network. Our novel transcriptome profiles and new method are powerful tools for studying the mechanistic basis of cell fate decisions.
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spelling doaj-art-edb47e7cde63460aa3b7dd0d3999e2ec2025-08-20T03:00:31ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0194e9385310.1371/journal.pone.0093853Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.Sung-Joon ParkTerumasa UmemotoMihoko Saito-AdachiYoshiko ShiratsuchiMasayuki YamatoKenta NakaiExtrinsic and intrinsic regulators are responsible for the tight control of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which differentiate into all blood cell lineages. To understand the fundamental basis of HSC biology, we focused on differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in long-term and short-term HSCs, which are closely related in terms of cell development but substantially differ in their stem cell capacity. To analyze the transcriptional regulation of the DEGs identified in the novel transcriptome profiles obtained by our RNA-seq analysis, we developed a computational method to model the linear relationship between gene expression and the features of putative regulatory elements. The transcriptional regulation modes characterized here suggest the importance of transcription factors (TFs) that are expressed at steady state or at low levels. Remarkably, we found that 24 differentially expressed TFs targeting 21 putative TF-binding sites contributed significantly to transcriptional regulation. These TFs tended to be modulated by other nondifferentially expressed TFs, suggesting that HSCs can achieve flexible and rapid responses via the control of nondifferentially expressed TFs through a highly complex regulatory network. Our novel transcriptome profiles and new method are powerful tools for studying the mechanistic basis of cell fate decisions.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0093853&type=printable
spellingShingle Sung-Joon Park
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Mihoko Saito-Adachi
Yoshiko Shiratsuchi
Masayuki Yamato
Kenta Nakai
Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.
PLoS ONE
title Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.
title_full Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.
title_fullStr Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.
title_full_unstemmed Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.
title_short Computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells.
title_sort computational promoter modeling identifies the modes of transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic stem cells
url https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0093853&type=printable
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