Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data.
The inference of regulatory interactions and quantitative models of gene regulation from time-series transcriptomics data has been extensively studied and applied to a range of problems in drug discovery, cancer research, and biotechnology. The application of existing methods is commonly based on im...
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| author | Diana Stefan Corinne Pinel Stéphane Pinhal Eugenio Cinquemani Johannes Geiselmann Hidde de Jong |
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| description | The inference of regulatory interactions and quantitative models of gene regulation from time-series transcriptomics data has been extensively studied and applied to a range of problems in drug discovery, cancer research, and biotechnology. The application of existing methods is commonly based on implicit assumptions on the biological processes under study. First, the measurements of mRNA abundance obtained in transcriptomics experiments are taken to be representative of protein concentrations. Second, the observed changes in gene expression are assumed to be solely due to transcription factors and other specific regulators, while changes in the activity of the gene expression machinery and other global physiological effects are neglected. While convenient in practice, these assumptions are often not valid and bias the reverse engineering process. Here we systematically investigate, using a combination of models and experiments, the importance of this bias and possible corrections. We measure in real time and in vivo the activity of genes involved in the FliA-FlgM module of the E. coli motility network. From these data, we estimate protein concentrations and global physiological effects by means of kinetic models of gene expression. Our results indicate that correcting for the bias of commonly-made assumptions improves the quality of the models inferred from the data. Moreover, we show by simulation that these improvements are expected to be even stronger for systems in which protein concentrations have longer half-lives and the activity of the gene expression machinery varies more strongly across conditions than in the FliA-FlgM module. The approach proposed in this study is broadly applicable when using time-series transcriptome data to learn about the structure and dynamics of regulatory networks. In the case of the FliA-FlgM module, our results demonstrate the importance of global physiological effects and the active regulation of FliA and FlgM half-lives for the dynamics of FliA-dependent promoters. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7634114449a24ea790d3bc53da0c50da2022-12-21T19:54:33ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582015-01-01111e100402810.1371/journal.pcbi.1004028Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data.Diana StefanCorinne PinelStéphane PinhalEugenio CinquemaniJohannes GeiselmannHidde de JongThe inference of regulatory interactions and quantitative models of gene regulation from time-series transcriptomics data has been extensively studied and applied to a range of problems in drug discovery, cancer research, and biotechnology. The application of existing methods is commonly based on implicit assumptions on the biological processes under study. First, the measurements of mRNA abundance obtained in transcriptomics experiments are taken to be representative of protein concentrations. Second, the observed changes in gene expression are assumed to be solely due to transcription factors and other specific regulators, while changes in the activity of the gene expression machinery and other global physiological effects are neglected. While convenient in practice, these assumptions are often not valid and bias the reverse engineering process. Here we systematically investigate, using a combination of models and experiments, the importance of this bias and possible corrections. We measure in real time and in vivo the activity of genes involved in the FliA-FlgM module of the E. coli motility network. From these data, we estimate protein concentrations and global physiological effects by means of kinetic models of gene expression. Our results indicate that correcting for the bias of commonly-made assumptions improves the quality of the models inferred from the data. Moreover, we show by simulation that these improvements are expected to be even stronger for systems in which protein concentrations have longer half-lives and the activity of the gene expression machinery varies more strongly across conditions than in the FliA-FlgM module. The approach proposed in this study is broadly applicable when using time-series transcriptome data to learn about the structure and dynamics of regulatory networks. In the case of the FliA-FlgM module, our results demonstrate the importance of global physiological effects and the active regulation of FliA and FlgM half-lives for the dynamics of FliA-dependent promoters.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4295839?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Diana Stefan Corinne Pinel Stéphane Pinhal Eugenio Cinquemani Johannes Geiselmann Hidde de Jong Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data. |
| title_full | Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data. |
| title_fullStr | Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data. |
| title_short | Inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time-series reporter gene data. |
| title_sort | inference of quantitative models of bacterial promoters from time series reporter gene data |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4295839?pdf=render |
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