Prevalence of transcription factors in ascomycete and basidiomycete fungi.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gene regulation underlies fungal physiology and therefore is a major factor in fungal biodiversity. Analysis of genome sequences has revealed a large number of putative transcription factors in most fungal genomes. The presence of fungal orthologs for individual regulators has been analysed and appears to be highly variable with some regulators widely conserved and others showing narrow distribution. Although genome-scale transcription factor surveys have been performed before, no global study into the prevalence of specific regulators across the fungal kingdom has been presented.

Results

In this study we have analysed the number of members for 37 regulator classes in 77 ascomycete and 31 basidiomycete fungal genomes and revealed significant differences between as

SUBMITTER: Todd RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3998117 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature