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ArticlePloS one2020

Deciphering the functional diversity of DNA-binding transcription factors in Bacteria and Archaea organisms.

Emanuel Flores-Bautista, Rafael Hernandez-Guerrero, Alejandro Huerta-Saquero, Silvia Tenorio-Salgado, Nancy Rivera-Gomez, Alba Romero, Jose Antonio Ibarra, Ernesto Perez-Rueda

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Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Archaeal transcription.Transcription · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Emanuel Flores-BautistaInstituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Unidad Académica Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Rafael Hernandez-GuerreroInstituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Unidad Académica Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Alejandro Huerta-SaqueroCentro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ensenada, Baja California, México.ORCID 0000-0002-0156-6773
Silvia Tenorio-SalgadoTecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida, Mérida, Yucatán, México.
Nancy Rivera-GomezInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
Alba RomeroMicrobiota Host Interactions and Clostridia Research Group, Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Jose Antonio IbarraLaboratorio de Genética Microbiana, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de México, México.ORCID 0000-0002-5016-0622
Ernesto Perez-RuedaInstituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Unidad Académica Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México.ORCID 0000-0002-6879-0673
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México · MXInstituto Nacional de Salud Pública · MXInstituto Politécnico Nacional · MXInstituto Tecnológico de Mérida · MXUniversidad Andrés Bello · CLUniversidad Mayor · CL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA-binding Transcription Factors (TFs) play a central role in regulation of gene expression in prokaryotic organisms, and similarities at the sequence level have been reported. These proteins are predicted with different abundances as a consequence of genome size, where small organisms contain a low proportion of TFs and large genomes contain a high proportion of TFs. In this work, we analyzed a collection of 668 experimentally validated TFs across 30 different species from diverse taxonomical classes, including Escherichia coli K-12, Bacillus subtilis 168, Corynebacterium glutamicum, and Streptomyces coelicolor, among others. This collection of TFs, together with 111 hidden Markov model profiles associated with DNA-binding TFs collected from diverse databases such as PFAM and DBD, was used to identify the repertoire of proteins putatively devoted to gene regulation in 1321 representative genomes of Archaea and Bacteria. The predicted regulatory proteins were posteriorly analyzed in terms of their genomic context, allowing the prediction of functions for TFs and their neighbor genes, such as genes involved in virulence, enzymatic functions, phosphorylation mechanisms, and antibiotic resistance. The functional analysis associated with PFAM groups showed diverse functional categories were significantly enriched in the collection of TFs and the proteins encoded by the neighbor genes, in particular, small-molecule binding and amino acid transmembrane transporter activities associated with the LysR family and proteins devoted to cellular aromatic compound metabolic processes or responses to drugs, stress, or abiotic stimuli in the MarR family. We consider that with the increasing data derived from new technologies, novel TFs can be identified and help improve the predictions for this class of proteins in complete genomes. The complete collection of experimentally characterized and predicted TFs is available at http://web.pcyt.unam.mx/EntrafDB/.

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ArchaeaArchaeal ProteinsBacterial ProteinsBinding SitesDNA, ArchaealDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsEscherichia coli K12Gene Expression Regulation, ArchaealGene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenome, ArchaealGenome, BacterialProtein BindingTranscription FactorsVirulenceArchaeal ProteinsBacterial ProteinsDNA, ArchaealDNA, BacterialDNA-Binding ProteinsTranscription Factors

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PMID32822422
PMCPMC7446807
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