The evolution, evolvability and engineering of gene regulatory DNA

ED Vaishnav, CG de Boer, J Molinet, M Yassour, L Fan… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Mutations in non-coding regulatory DNA sequences can alter gene expression, organismal
phenotype and fitness,–. Constructing complete fitness landscapes, in which DNA …

Comparative analysis of gene regulatory networks: from network reconstruction to evolution

D Thompson, A Regev, S Roy - Annual review of cell and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Regulation of gene expression is central to many biological processes. Although
reconstruction of regulatory circuits from genomic data alone is therefore desirable, this …

Transcriptional enhancers and their communication with gene promoters

H Ray-Jones, M Spivakov - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Transcriptional enhancers play a key role in the initiation and maintenance of gene
expression programmes, particularly in metazoa. How these elements control their target …

Comparative genome-scale reconstruction of gapless metabolic networks for present and ancestral species

E Pitkänen, P Jouhten, J Hou, MF Syed… - PLoS computational …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We introduce a novel computational approach, CoReCo, for comparative metabolic
reconstruction and provide genome-scale metabolic network models for 49 important fungal …

Spurious transcription factor binding: non‐functional or genetically redundant?

M Spivakov - Bioessays, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) on the DNA are generally accepted as the key
nodes of gene control. However, the multitudes of TFBSs identified in genome‐wide studies …

Evolutionary principles of modular gene regulation in yeasts

DA Thompson, S Roy, M Chan, MP Styczynsky… - Elife, 2013 - elifesciences.org
Divergence in gene regulation can play a major role in evolution. Here, we used a
phylogenetic framework to measure mRNA profiles in 15 yeast species from the phylum …

The Adr1 transcription factor directs regulation of the ergosterol pathway and azole resistance in Candida albicans

M Shrivastava, GS Kouyoumdjian, E Kirbizakis, D Ruiz… - MBio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Transcription factors (TFs) play key roles in cellular regulation and are critical in the control
of drug resistance in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. We found that activation of the …

The rewiring of transcription circuits in evolution

AD Johnson - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2017 - Elsevier
The binding of transcription regulators to cis-regulatory sequences is a key step through
which all cells regulate expression of their genes. Due to gains and losses of cis-regulatory …

SH3 interactome conserves general function over specific form

X Xin, D Gfeller, J Cheng, R Tonikian, L Sun… - Molecular systems …, 2013 - embopress.org
Src homology 3 (SH3) domains bind peptides to mediate protein–protein interactions that
assemble and regulate dynamic biological processes. We surveyed the repertoire of SH3 …

Evolutionary dynamics of microRNA target sites across vertebrate evolution

A Simkin, R Geissler, ABR McIntyre, A Grimson - PLoS genetics, 2020 - journals.plos.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) control the abundance of the majority of the vertebrate transcriptome.
The recognition sequences, or target sites, for bilaterian miRNAs are found predominantly in …