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ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2016

Decreased Transcription Factor Binding Levels Nearby Primate Pseudogenes Suggest Regulatory Degeneration.

Gavin M Douglas, Michael D Wilson, Alan M Moses

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Gavin M DouglasDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Michael D WilsonGenetics and Genome Biology Program, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Alan M MosesDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada alan.moses@utoronto.ca.

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Abstract

Characteristics of pseudogene degeneration at the coding level are well-known, such as a shift toward neutral rates of nonsynonymous substitutions and gain of frameshift mutations. In contrast, degeneration of pseudogene transcriptional regulation is not well understood. Here, we test two predictions of regulatory degeneration along a pseudogenized lineage: 1) Decreased transcription factor (TF) binding and 2) accelerated evolution in putative cis-regulatory regions.We find evidence for decreased TF binding levels nearby two primate pseudogenes compared with functional liver genes. However, the majority of TF-bound sequences nearby pseudogenes do not show evidence for lineage-specific accelerated rates of evolution. We conclude that decreases in TF binding level could be a marker for regulatory degeneration, while sequence degeneration in primate cis-regulatory modules may be obscured by background rates of TF binding site turnover.

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Gene Expression RegulationRegulatory Elements, TranscriptionalAnimalsBiological EvolutionEvolution, MolecularHumansMacacaModels, GeneticPrimatesProtein BindingPseudogenesSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNATranscription FactorsTranscription FactorsChIP-seqhistone modifications.neutral evolutionpseudoenhancerregulatory evolution

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PMID26882985
PMCPMC4868113

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