Genome-scale analysis of in vivo spatiotemporal promoter activity in Caenorhabditis elegans

Denis Dupuy, Nicolas Bertin, César A. Hidalgo, Kavitha Venkatesan, Domena Tu, David Lee, Jennifer Rosenberg, Nenad Svrzikapa, Aurélie Blanc, Alain Carnec, Anne Ruxandra Carvunis, Rock Pulak, Jane Shingles, John Reece-Hoyes, Rebecca Hunt-Newbury, Ryan Viveiros, William A. Mohler, Murat Tasan, Frederick P. Roth, Christian Le PeuchIan A. Hope, Robert Johnsen, Donald G. Moerman, Albert László Barabási*, David Baillie, Marc Vidal

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Differential regulation of gene expression is essential for cell fate specification in metazoans. Characterizing the transcriptional activity of gene promoters, in time and in space, is therefore a critical step toward understanding complex biological systems. Here we present an in vivo spatiotemporal analysis for ∼900 predicted C. elegans promoters (∼5% of the predicted protein-coding genes), each driving the expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP). Using a flow-cytometer adapted for nematode profiling, we generated 'chronograms', two-dimensional representations of fluorescence intensity along the body axis and throughout development from early larvae to adults. Automated comparison and clustering of the obtained in vivo expression patterns show that genes coexpressed in space and time tend to belong to common functional categories. Moreover, integration of this data set with C. elegans protein-protein interactome data sets enables prediction of anatomical and temporal interaction territories between protein partners.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)663-668
Number of pages6
JournalNature Biotechnology
Volume25
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2007
Externally publishedYes

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