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ArticleGenome biology2012

Mediation of Drosophila autosomal dosage effects and compensation by network interactions.

John H Malone, Dong-Yeon Cho, Nicolas R Mattiuzzo, Carlo G Artieri, Lichun Jiang, Ryan K Dale, Harold E Smith, Jennifer McDaniel, Sarah Munro, Marc Salit and 3 more

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60 citing papers in PubMed.

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13 authors.

John H MaloneLaboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 50 South Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Dong-Yeon Cho
Nicolas R Mattiuzzo
Carlo G Artieri
Lichun Jiang
Ryan K Dale
Harold E Smith
Jennifer McDaniel
Sarah Munro
Marc Salit
Justen Andrews
Teresa M Przytycka
Brian Oliver

Funding

Combinatorial and graph theoretical approach to systems biology and mol. evo.ZIALM200887 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI PRZYTYCKA, TERESA · 2009 to 2025
$24.4M
Drosophila Functional GenomicsZIADK015600 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI OLIVER, BRIAN · 2009 to 2025
$23.9M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA DK015600
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundGene dosage change is a mild perturbation that is a valuable tool for pathway reconstruction in Drosophila. While it is often assumed that reducing gene dose by half leads to two-fold less expression, there is partial autosomal dosage compensation in Drosophila, which may be mediated by feedback or buffering in expression networks.

resultsWe profiled expression in engineered flies where gene dose was reduced from two to one. While expression of most one-dose genes was reduced, the gene-specific dose responses were heterogeneous. Expression of two-dose genes that are first-degree neighbors of one-dose genes in novel network models also changed, and the directionality of change depended on the response of one-dose genes.

conclusionsOur data indicate that expression perturbation propagates in network space. Autosomal compensation, or the lack thereof, is a gene-specific response, largely mediated by interactions with the rest of the transcriptome.

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Dosage Compensation, GeneticGene Regulatory NetworksGenes, InsectAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedChromosomes, InsectDrosophilaFemaleGene DosageGenetic HeterogeneityMaleOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisTranscriptomeX Chromosome

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PMID22531030
PMCPMC3446302

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