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Genome of the week - Deinococcus radiodurans
• Highly resistant to DNA damage– Most radiation resistant organism known
• Multiple genetic elements– 2 chromosomes, 2 plasmids– Why call one a chromosome vs. plasmid?
Why sequence D. radiodurans?
• Learn how this bacterium is so resistant to DNA damage– This bacterium has nearly all known mechanisms for repairing
DNA damage.
– Redundancy of some DNA damage repair mechanisms.
• Use this organism in bioremediation.– Sites contaminated with high levels of radioactivity
– DOE (Department of Energy) sequences many microbial genomes - JGI
Data normalization
• Why do we need to normalize microarray data?– Correct for experimental errors
• Northern blot example• Microbial microarrays
– Assume the expression of most genes don’t change– We know every gene - sum the intensity in both
channels and make the equal.– Many other ways of normalizing data - not one
standard way. Area of active research.
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Experimental design
• Very important - often overlooked.
• Bacteria are easier to work with than more complex systems.
• Two types we will discuss in broad terms:– Direct comparison– Reference design– Also loop design (ANOVA)
Yang and Speed, 2002
Direct comparison
• Directly comparing all samples against each other.• Best choice - lowest amount of variation in the
experiment.• Not the best design
– Many samples are to be compared.
– RNA is not easy to obtain (often not a problem for microbial systems.
– If microarrays are limiting.
Reference design (indirect)
• Compare all samples to a common reference.– Usually a pool of all samples of RNA or genomic DNA
• Useful in comparing many samples.• Drawbacks:
– 1/2 of the measurements are not biologically relevant
– Each gene is expressed as a ratio/ratio. Variation in the ratios will be higher.
More complicated situations
• Multifactorial designs
Examples of applications
• Gene expression – Defining a regulon - targets of a transcription
factor.– Functional annotation
• Identifying regions of DNA bound by a DNA binding protein
• Genome content• Disease diagnosis
Characterization of the stationary phase sigma factor regulon (H)
in Bacillus subtilis
What is a sigma factor?
• Directs RNA polymerase to promoter sequences
• Bacteria use many sigma factors to turn on regulatory networks at different times.– Sporulation– Stress responses– Virulence
Wosten, 1998
Alternative sigma factors in B. subtilis sporulation
Kroos and Yu, 2000
The stationary phase sigma factor: H
most active at the transition from exponential growth to stationary phase
mutants are blocked at stage 0 of sporulation
• Many known sigH promoters previously identified– Array validation
Experimental approach• Compare expression profiles of wt and
∆sigH mutant at times when sigH is active. • Artificially induce the expression of sigH
during exponential growth.– When Sigma-H is normally not active.– Might miss genes that depend additional factors
other than Sigma-H.
• Identify potential promoters using computer searches.
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Isolate RNAMake labeled cDNA
Mix and hybridize
Scan slideAnalyze data
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Data from a microarray are expressed as ratios
• Cy3/Cy5 or Cy5/Cy3
• Measuring differences in two samples, not absolute expression levels
• Ratios are often log2 transformed before analysis
Genes whose transcription is influenced by H
• 433 genes were altered when comparing wt vs. ∆sigH.
• 160 genes were altered when sigH overexpressed.
• Which genes are directly regulated by Sigma-H?
Identifying sigH promoters
• Two bioinformatics approaches– Hidden Markov Model database
• HMMER 2.2 (hmm.wustl.edu)
– Pattern searches (SubtiList)
• Identify 100s of potential promoters
Correlate potential sigH promoters with genes identified
with microarray data.• Genes positively regulated by Sigma-H in a
microarray experiment that have a putative promoter within 500bp of the gene.
Directly controlled sigH genes
• 26 new sigH promoters controlling 54 genes• Genes involved in key processes associated with the
transition to stationary phase– generation of new food sources (ie. proteases)– transport of nutrients– cell wall metabolism– cyctochrome biogenesis
• Correctly identified nearly all known sigH promoters• Complete sigH regulon:
– 49 promoters controlling 87 genes.
• Identification of DNA regions bound by proteins.
Iyer et al. 2001 Nature, 409:533-538