Searching for bidirectional promoters in Arabidopsis thaliana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A "bidirectional gene pair" is defined as two adjacent genes which are located on opposite strands of DNA with transcription start sites (TSSs) not more than 1000 base pairs apart and the intergenic region between two TSSs is commonly designated as a putative "bidirectional promoter". Individual examples of bidirectional gene pairs have been reported for years, as well as a few genome-wide analyses have been studied in mammalian and human genomes. However, no genome-wide analysis of bidirectional genes for plants has been done. Furthermore, the exact mechanism of this gene organization is still less understood.

Results

We conducted comprehensive analysis of bidirectional gene pairs through the whole Arabidopsis thaliana genome and identified 2471 bidirectional gen

SUBMITTER: Wang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2648788 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature