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DrNaomiNakayama

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering

Reader in Biological Design
 
 
 
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@article{Reimegård:2017:nar/gkx087,
author = {Reimegård, J and Kundu, S and Pendle, A and Irish, VF and Shaw, P and Nakayama, N and Sundström, JF and Emanuelsson, O},
doi = {nar/gkx087},
journal = {Nucleic Acids Research},
pages = {3253--3265},
title = {Genome-wide identification of physically clustered genes suggests chromatin-level co-regulation in male reproductive development in Arabidopsis thaliana},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx087},
volume = {45},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Co-expression of physically linked genes occurs surprisingly frequently in eukaryotes. Such chromosomal clustering may confer a selective advantage as it enables coordinated gene regulation at the chromatin level. We studied the chromosomal organization of genes involved in male reproductive development in Arabidopsis thaliana. We developed an in-silico tool to identify physical clusters of co-regulated genes from gene expression data. We identified 17 clusters (96 genes) involved in stamen development and acting downstream of the transcriptional activator MS1 (MALE STERILITY 1), which contains a PHD domain associated with chromatin re-organization. The clusters exhibited little gene homology or promoter element similarity, and largely overlapped with reported repressive histone marks. Experiments on a subset of the clusters suggested a link between expression activation and chromatin conformation: qRT-PCR and mRNA in situ hybridization showed that the clustered genes were up-regulated within 48 h after MS1 induction; out of 14 chromatin-remodeling mutants studied, expression of clustered genes was consistently down-regulated only in hta9/hta11, previously associated with metabolic cluster activation; DNA fluorescence in situ hybridization confirmed that transcriptional activation of the clustered genes was correlated with open chromatin conformation. Stamen development thus appears to involve transcriptional activation of physically clustered genes through chromatin de-condensation.
AU  - Reimegård,J
AU  - Kundu,S
AU  - Pendle,A
AU  - Irish,VF
AU  - Shaw,P
AU  - Nakayama,N
AU  - Sundström,JF
AU  - Emanuelsson,O
DO  - nar/gkx087
EP  - 3265
PY  - 2017///
SN  - 0305-1048
SP  - 3253
TI  - Genome-wide identification of physically clustered genes suggests chromatin-level co-regulation in male reproductive development in Arabidopsis thaliana
T2  - Nucleic Acids Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkx087
UR  - https://academic.oup.com/nar/article/45/6/3253/2975288
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/83687
VL  - 45
ER  -
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