DocumentCode
1652127
Title
Similar Histone Acetylation Pattern of Neighboring Genes in Yeast
Author
Deng, Yangyang ; Dai, Xianhua
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou
fYear
2008
Firstpage
357
Lastpage
360
Abstract
Neighboring genes were found to have a similar expression pattern in eukaryotic genome. But the reason is not clear yet. We find that immediate neighboring genes in yeast show a strong positive correlation in histone acetylation pattern. The co-modification (similar acetylation pattern) extends to neighboring pairs within 12 genes or 11 kbp on chromosomes. These results suggest that chromatin acetylation patterns may play a role in coexpression (similar expression pattern) of neighboring genes.
Keywords
biochemistry; cellular biophysics; genetics; microorganisms; chromatin acetylation patterns; coexpression; eukaryotic genome; histone acetylation pattern; neighboring gene expression pattern; yeast; Bioinformatics; Biological cells; Fungi; Genomics; Information science; Measurement standards; Pattern analysis; Proteins; Semiconductor device measurement; Sun;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, 2008. ICBBE 2008. The 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location
Shanghai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-1747-6
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-1748-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICBBE.2008.91
Filename
4534971
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