TY - JOUR
T1 - Genome-scale analysis of in vivo spatiotemporal promoter activity in Caenorhabditis elegans
AU - Dupuy, Denis
AU - Bertin, Nicolas
AU - Hidalgo, César A.
AU - Venkatesan, Kavitha
AU - Tu, Domena
AU - Lee, David
AU - Rosenberg, Jennifer
AU - Svrzikapa, Nenad
AU - Blanc, Aurélie
AU - Carnec, Alain
AU - Carvunis, Anne Ruxandra
AU - Pulak, Rock
AU - Shingles, Jane
AU - Reece-Hoyes, John
AU - Hunt-Newbury, Rebecca
AU - Viveiros, Ryan
AU - Mohler, William A.
AU - Tasan, Murat
AU - Roth, Frederick P.
AU - Le Peuch, Christian
AU - Hope, Ian A.
AU - Johnsen, Robert
AU - Moerman, Donald G.
AU - Barabási, Albert László
AU - Baillie, David
AU - Vidal, Marc
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/nbt1305
DO - 10.1038/nbt1305
M3 - Article
C2 - 17486083
AN - SCOPUS:34250173488
SN - 1087-0156
VL - 25
SP - 663
EP - 668
JO - Nature Biotechnology
JF - Nature Biotechnology
IS - 6
ER -