Gene co-regulation is highly conserved in the evolution of eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

ABSTRACT: Differences between species have been suggested to largely reside in the network of connections among the genes. Nevertheless, the rate at which these connections evolve has not been properly quantified. Here, we measure the extent to which co-regulation between pairs of genes is conserved over large phylogenetic distances; between two eukaryotes Caenorhabditis elegans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and between two prokaryotes Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. We first construct a reliable set of co-regulated genes by combining various functional genomics data from yeast, and subsequently determine conservation of co-regulation in worm from the distribution of co-expression values. For B.subtilis and E.coli, we use known operons and regulons. We find that between 76 and 80% of the co-

SUBMITTER: Snel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC519111 | biostudies-literature | 2004

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature