title: Transcription start site evolution in Drosophila.
abstract: Transcription start site (TSS) evolution remains largely undescribed in Drosophila, likely due to limited annotations in non-melanogaster species. In this study, we introduce a concise new method that selectively sequences from the 5'-end of mRNA and used it to identify TSS in four Drosophila species, including Drosophila melanogaster, D. simulans, D. sechellia, and D. pseudoobscura. For verification, we compared our results in D. melanogaster with known annotations, published 5'-rapid amplification of cDNA ends data, and with RNAseq from the same mRNA pool. Then, we paired 2,849 D. melanogaster TSS with its closest equivalent TSS in each species (likely to be its true ortholog) using the available multiple sequence alignments. Most of the D. melanogaster TSSs were successfully paired with an ortholog in each species (83%, 86%, and 55% for D. simulans, D. sechellia, and D. pseudoobscura, respectively). On the basis of the number and distribution of reads mapped at each TSS, we also estimated promoter-specific expression (PSE) and TSS peak shape, respectively. Among paired TSS orthologs, the location and promoter activity were largely conserved. TSS location appears important as PSE, and TSS peak shape was more frequently divergent among TSS that had moved. Unpaired TSS were surprisingly common in D. pseudoobscura. An increased mutation rate upstream of TSS might explain this pattern. We found an enrichment of ribosomal protein genes among diverged TSS, suggesting that TSS evolution is not uniform across the genome.
authors: Section of Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, CA, USA.
authors: Bradley J
authors: BJ
authors: Main
authors: Andrew D
authors: AD
authors: Smith
authors: Hyosik
authors: H
authors: Jang
authors: Sergey V
authors: SV
authors: Nuzhdin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005260:Female; D015870:Gene Expression; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D013045:Species Specificity; D024363:Transcription Initiation Site
keywords: CAGE; Drosophila; TSS; gene expression; promoter; transcription start site
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