title: De novo cis-regulatory module elicitation for eukaryotic genomes.
abstract: Transcription regulation is controlled by coordinated binding of one or more transcription factors in the promoter regions of genes. In many species, especially higher eukaryotes, transcription factor binding sites tend to occur as homotypic or heterotypic clusters, also known as cis-regulatory modules. The number of sites and distances between the sites, however, vary greatly in a module. We propose a statistical model to describe the underlying cluster structure as well as individual motif conservation and develop a Monte Carlo motif screening strategy for predicting novel regulatory modules in upstream sequences of coregulated genes. We demonstrate the power of the method with examples ranging from bacterial to insect and human genomes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. gupta@bios.unc.edu
authors.forename: Mayetri
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Jun S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D017124:Conserved Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D005057:Eukaryotic Cells; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D005809:Genes, Regulator / Q000235:genetics; D016678:Genome; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014157:Transcription Factors