Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 5, 2005
Bioinformatics 2005 21(17):3490-3500; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti558
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Discrimination of yeast genes involved in methionine and phosphate metabolism on the basis of upstream motifs
1Service de Conformation des Macromolécules Biologiques et de Bioinformatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles CP 263, Campus Plaine, Blvd du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
2Unité de Chronobiologie Théorique CP 231, Campus Plaine, Blvd du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
3Projet Méthodes et Algorithmes pour la Bioinformatique, LIRMM-CNRS 161 rue Ada, 34392, Montpellier, France
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Motivation: In yeast, methionine and phosphate metabolism are regulated by the complexes Met4p/Met28p/Cbf1p and Pho4p, respectively. The binding sites for these factors share a common core CACGTG. We evaluate our capability to discriminate phosphate- and methionine-responding genes on the basis of putative regulatory elements, despite the similarity between Met4p/Met28p/Cbf1p and Pho4p consensus.
Results: We scanned upstream regions of methionine, phosphate and control genes with position-specific weight matrices for Pho4p, Met4p/Met28p/Cbf1p and Met31p/Met32p, and applied discriminant analysis to classify genes according to matrix matching scores. This analysis showed that matrix scores provided a good discrimination between phosphate, methionine and control genes. The optimal parameters have then been used to predict phosphate and methionine regulation at a genome scale. The genome-scale analysis predicts 37 genes as methionine-regulated and 40 as phosphate-regulated. We compare the predictive results with high throughput data and discuss the difference.
Availability: The programs for sequence retrieval and analysis, as well as the complete data and results, are available on the website on regulatory sequence analysis tools (http://rsat.scmbb.ulb.ac.be/rsat/).
Contact: jvanheld{at}scmbb.ulb.ac.be
Supplementary information: The complete datasets and results are available at http://rsat.scmbb.ulb.ac.be/rsat/data/published_data/Gonze_MET_PHO/
Received on January 16, 2005; revised on June 15, 2005; accepted on June 27, 2005
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