title: Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in human promoters and 3' UTRs by comparison of several mammals.
abstract: Comprehensive identification of all functional elements encoded in the human genome is a fundamental need in biomedical research. Here, we present a comparative analysis of the human, mouse, rat and dog genomes to create a systematic catalogue of common regulatory motifs in promoters and 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs). The promoter analysis yields 174 candidate motifs, including most previously known transcription-factor binding sites and 105 new motifs. The 3'-UTR analysis yields 106 motifs likely to be involved in post-transcriptional regulation. Nearly one-half are associated with microRNAs (miRNAs), leading to the discovery of many new miRNA genes and their likely target genes. Our results suggest that previous estimates of the number of human miRNA genes were low, and that miRNAs regulate at least 20% of human genes. The overall results provide a systematic view of gene regulation in the human, which will be refined as additional mammalian genomes become available.
authors.affiliation: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaohui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Kulbokas
authors.forename: Todd R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Golub
authors.forename: Vamsi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mootha
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lindblad-Toh
authors.forename: Eric S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Lander
authors.forename: Manolis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kellis
mesh_terms: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D004285:Dogs; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D008322:Mammals / Q000235:genetics*; D051379:Mice; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009928:Organ Specificity; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic / Q000235:genetics*; D051381:Rats; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; D035683:MicroRNAs
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