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Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription?
BACKGROUND: Microscopic examination of living cells often reveals that cells from some cell strains appear to be in a permanent state of disarray without obvious reason. In all probability such a disorderly state affects cell functioning. The aim of this study was to establish whether a disorderly s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1500996/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16579860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-1-9 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Microscopic examination of living cells often reveals that cells from some cell strains appear to be in a permanent state of disarray without obvious reason. In all probability such a disorderly state affects cell functioning. The aim of this study was to establish whether a disorderly state could occur that adversely affects gene expression profiles and whether such a state might have biomedical consequences. To this end, the expression profiles of the 14 genes of the proteasome derived from the GEO SAGE database were utilized as a model system. RESULTS: By adopting the overall expression profile as the standard for normal expression, deviation in transcription was frequently observed. Each deviating tissue exhibited its own characteristic profile of over-expressed and under-expressed genes. Moreover such a specific deviating profile appeared to be epigenetic in origin and could be stably transmitted to a clonal derivative e.g. from a precancerous normal tissue to its tumor. A significantly greater degree of deviation was observed in the expression profiles from the tumor tissues. The changes in the expression of different genes display a network of interdependencies. Therefore our hypothesis is that deviating profiles reflect disorder in the localization of genes within the nucleus The underlying cause(s) for these disorderly states remain obscure; it could be noise and/or deterministic chaos. Presence of mutational damage does not appear to be predominantly involved. CONCLUSION: As disturbances in expression profiles frequently occur and have biomedical consequences, its determination could prove of value in several fields of biomedical research. REVIEWERS: This article was reviewed by Trey Ideker, Itai Yanai and Stephan Beck |
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spelling | pubmed-15009962006-07-13 Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? Simons, Johannes WIM Biol Direct Research BACKGROUND: Microscopic examination of living cells often reveals that cells from some cell strains appear to be in a permanent state of disarray without obvious reason. In all probability such a disorderly state affects cell functioning. The aim of this study was to establish whether a disorderly state could occur that adversely affects gene expression profiles and whether such a state might have biomedical consequences. To this end, the expression profiles of the 14 genes of the proteasome derived from the GEO SAGE database were utilized as a model system. RESULTS: By adopting the overall expression profile as the standard for normal expression, deviation in transcription was frequently observed. Each deviating tissue exhibited its own characteristic profile of over-expressed and under-expressed genes. Moreover such a specific deviating profile appeared to be epigenetic in origin and could be stably transmitted to a clonal derivative e.g. from a precancerous normal tissue to its tumor. A significantly greater degree of deviation was observed in the expression profiles from the tumor tissues. The changes in the expression of different genes display a network of interdependencies. Therefore our hypothesis is that deviating profiles reflect disorder in the localization of genes within the nucleus The underlying cause(s) for these disorderly states remain obscure; it could be noise and/or deterministic chaos. Presence of mutational damage does not appear to be predominantly involved. CONCLUSION: As disturbances in expression profiles frequently occur and have biomedical consequences, its determination could prove of value in several fields of biomedical research. REVIEWERS: This article was reviewed by Trey Ideker, Itai Yanai and Stephan Beck BioMed Central 2006-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC1500996/ /pubmed/16579860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-1-9 Text en Copyright © 2006 Simons; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Simons, Johannes WIM Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? |
title | Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? |
title_full | Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? |
title_fullStr | Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? |
title_full_unstemmed | Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? |
title_short | Hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? |
title_sort | hereditary profiles of disorderly transcription? |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1500996/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16579860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6150-1-9 |
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