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Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans
The proper balance of gene expression is essential for cellular health, organismal development, and maintaining homeostasis. In response to complex internal and external signals, the cell needs to modulate gene expression to maintain proteostasis and establish cellular identity within its niche. On...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7911571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33525750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020276 |
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author | Asfare, Sarah Eldabagh, Reem Siddiqui, Khizar Patel, Bharvi Kaba, Diellza Mullane, Julie Siddiqui, Umar Arnone, James T. |
author_facet | Asfare, Sarah Eldabagh, Reem Siddiqui, Khizar Patel, Bharvi Kaba, Diellza Mullane, Julie Siddiqui, Umar Arnone, James T. |
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description | The proper balance of gene expression is essential for cellular health, organismal development, and maintaining homeostasis. In response to complex internal and external signals, the cell needs to modulate gene expression to maintain proteostasis and establish cellular identity within its niche. On a genome level, single-celled prokaryotic microbes display clustering of co-expressed genes that are regulated as a polycistronic RNA. This phenomenon is largely absent from eukaryotic microbes, although there is extensive clustering of co-expressed genes as functional pairs spread throughout the genome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. While initial analysis demonstrated conservation of clustering in divergent fungal lineages, a comprehensive analysis has yet to be performed. Here we report on the prevalence, conservation, and significance of the functional clustering of co-regulated genes within the opportunistic human pathogen, Candida albicans. Our analysis reveals that there is extensive clustering within this organism—although the identity of the gene pairs is unique compared with those found in S. cerevisiae—indicating that this genomic arrangement evolved after these microbes diverged evolutionarily, rather than being the result of an ancestral arrangement. We report a clustered arrangement in gene families that participate in diverse molecular functions and are not the result of a divergent orientation with a shared promoter. This arrangement coordinates the transcription of the clustered genes to their neighboring genes, with the clusters congregating to genomic loci that are conducive to transcriptional regulation at a distance. |
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spelling | pubmed-79115712021-02-28 Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans Asfare, Sarah Eldabagh, Reem Siddiqui, Khizar Patel, Bharvi Kaba, Diellza Mullane, Julie Siddiqui, Umar Arnone, James T. Microorganisms Article The proper balance of gene expression is essential for cellular health, organismal development, and maintaining homeostasis. In response to complex internal and external signals, the cell needs to modulate gene expression to maintain proteostasis and establish cellular identity within its niche. On a genome level, single-celled prokaryotic microbes display clustering of co-expressed genes that are regulated as a polycistronic RNA. This phenomenon is largely absent from eukaryotic microbes, although there is extensive clustering of co-expressed genes as functional pairs spread throughout the genome in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. While initial analysis demonstrated conservation of clustering in divergent fungal lineages, a comprehensive analysis has yet to be performed. Here we report on the prevalence, conservation, and significance of the functional clustering of co-regulated genes within the opportunistic human pathogen, Candida albicans. Our analysis reveals that there is extensive clustering within this organism—although the identity of the gene pairs is unique compared with those found in S. cerevisiae—indicating that this genomic arrangement evolved after these microbes diverged evolutionarily, rather than being the result of an ancestral arrangement. We report a clustered arrangement in gene families that participate in diverse molecular functions and are not the result of a divergent orientation with a shared promoter. This arrangement coordinates the transcription of the clustered genes to their neighboring genes, with the clusters congregating to genomic loci that are conducive to transcriptional regulation at a distance. MDPI 2021-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7911571/ /pubmed/33525750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020276 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Asfare, Sarah Eldabagh, Reem Siddiqui, Khizar Patel, Bharvi Kaba, Diellza Mullane, Julie Siddiqui, Umar Arnone, James T. Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans |
title | Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans |
title_full | Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans |
title_fullStr | Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans |
title_full_unstemmed | Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans |
title_short | Systematic Analysis of Functionally Related Gene Clusters in the Opportunistic Pathogen, Candida albicans |
title_sort | systematic analysis of functionally related gene clusters in the opportunistic pathogen, candida albicans |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7911571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33525750 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020276 |
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