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ArticleMolecular systems biology2021

Promoters adopt distinct dynamic manifestations depending on transcription factor context.

Anders S Hansen, Christoph Zechner

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Article in Molecular systems biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Anders S HansenDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7540-7858
Christoph ZechnerMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1300-6076
Center for Systems Biology Dresden · DEMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

DYNAMIC BOTTOM-UP DISSECTION OF CHROMATIN LOOPING AND GENE REGULATIONDP2GM140938 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HANSEN, ANDERS SEJR · 2020 to 2020
$2.3M
Molecular mechanisms regulating chromatin looping in time and spaceR00GM130896 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HANSEN, ANDERS SEJR · 2020 to 2022
$747k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS DP2 GM140938NIGMS NIH HHS R00 GM130896
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells respond to external signals and stresses by activating transcription factors (TF), which induce gene expression changes. Prior work suggests that signal-specific gene expression changes are partly achieved because different gene promoters exhibit distinct induction dynamics in response to the same TF input signal. Here, using high-throughput quantitative single-cell measurements and a novel statistical method, we systematically analyzed transcriptional responses to a large number of dynamic TF inputs. In particular, we quantified the scaling behavior among different transcriptional features extracted from the measured trajectories such as the gene activation delay or duration of promoter activity. Surprisingly, we found that even the same gene promoter can exhibit qualitatively distinct induction and scaling behaviors when exposed to different dynamic TF contexts. While it was previously known that promoters fall into distinct classes, here we show that the same promoter can switch between different classes depending on context. Thus, promoters can adopt context-dependent "manifestations". Our analysis suggests that the full complexity of signal processing by genetic circuits may be significantly underestimated when studied in only specific contexts.

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Promoter Regions, GeneticBayes TheoremGene Expression Regulation, FungalModels, StatisticalSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsSingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptional ActivationTranscription FactorsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription FactorsBayesian inferencemanifestationMsn2promoter class switchingtranscription factor dynamics

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PMID33595925
PMCPMC7888307
OpenAlexW3130604518

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