Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.

Previous efforts to characterize conservation between the human and mouse genomes focused largely on sequence comparisons. These studies are inherently limited because they don’t account for gene structure differences, which may exist despite genomic sequence conservation. Recent high-throughput tra...

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Main Authors: Emily Jane Wood, Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu, Hui eJia, Leonard eLipovich
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2013.00183/full
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spelling doaj-dd819ecd726144e1b1c844ac3a83050e2020-11-24T23:57:07ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Genetics1664-80212013-09-01410.3389/fgene.2013.0018358089Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.Emily Jane Wood0Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu1Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu2Hui eJia3Leonard eLipovich4Leonard eLipovich5School of Medicine, Wayne State UniversityKing Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)Mahidol UniversitySchool of Medicine, Wayne State UniversitySchool of Medicine, Wayne State UniversitySchool of Medicine, Wayne State UniversityPrevious efforts to characterize conservation between the human and mouse genomes focused largely on sequence comparisons. These studies are inherently limited because they don’t account for gene structure differences, which may exist despite genomic sequence conservation. Recent high-throughput transcriptome studies have revealed widespread and extensive overlaps between genes, and transcripts, encoded on both strands of the genomic sequence. This overlapping gene organization, which produces sense-antisense gene pairs, is capable of effecting regulatory cascades through established mechanisms. We present an evolutionary conservation assessment of sense-antisense pairs, on three levels: genomic, transcriptomic, and structural. From a genome-wide dataset of human sense-antisense pairs, we first identified orthologous loci in the mouse genome, then assessed their transcription in the mouse, and finally compared the genomic structures of sense-antisense pairs expressed in both species. We found that approximately half of human sense-antisense loci have single orthologous locations in the mouse genome; however, only half of those orthologous locations have sense-antisense transcriptional activity in the mouse. This suggests that high human-mouse gene conservation overlooks widespread distinctions in sense-antisense pair incidence and expression. We compared gene structures at orthologous sense-antisense loci, finding frequent differences in gene structure between human and orthologous mouse sense-antisense pair members. Our categorization of human sense-antisense pairs with respect to mouse conservation of expression as well as structure points to limitations of mouse models. Gene structure differences, including at sense-antisense loci, may account for some of the phenotypic distinctions between primates and rodents. Genes in non-conserved sense-antisense pairs may contribute to evolutionary lineage-specific regulatory outcomes.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2013.00183/fullExpressed Sequence TagsTranscriptomeevolutionLong non-coding RNA (lncRNA)bidirectional promoterESTs
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Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu
Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu
Hui eJia
Leonard eLipovich
Leonard eLipovich
spellingShingle Emily Jane Wood
Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu
Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu
Hui eJia
Leonard eLipovich
Leonard eLipovich
Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.
Frontiers in Genetics
Expressed Sequence Tags
Transcriptome
evolution
Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)
bidirectional promoter
ESTs
author_facet Emily Jane Wood
Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu
Kwanrutai eChin-Inmanu
Hui eJia
Leonard eLipovich
Leonard eLipovich
author_sort Emily Jane Wood
title Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.
title_short Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.
title_full Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.
title_fullStr Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.
title_full_unstemmed Sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.
title_sort sense-antisense gene pairs: sequence, transcription, and structure are not conserved between human and mouse.
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Genetics
issn 1664-8021
publishDate 2013-09-01
description Previous efforts to characterize conservation between the human and mouse genomes focused largely on sequence comparisons. These studies are inherently limited because they don’t account for gene structure differences, which may exist despite genomic sequence conservation. Recent high-throughput transcriptome studies have revealed widespread and extensive overlaps between genes, and transcripts, encoded on both strands of the genomic sequence. This overlapping gene organization, which produces sense-antisense gene pairs, is capable of effecting regulatory cascades through established mechanisms. We present an evolutionary conservation assessment of sense-antisense pairs, on three levels: genomic, transcriptomic, and structural. From a genome-wide dataset of human sense-antisense pairs, we first identified orthologous loci in the mouse genome, then assessed their transcription in the mouse, and finally compared the genomic structures of sense-antisense pairs expressed in both species. We found that approximately half of human sense-antisense loci have single orthologous locations in the mouse genome; however, only half of those orthologous locations have sense-antisense transcriptional activity in the mouse. This suggests that high human-mouse gene conservation overlooks widespread distinctions in sense-antisense pair incidence and expression. We compared gene structures at orthologous sense-antisense loci, finding frequent differences in gene structure between human and orthologous mouse sense-antisense pair members. Our categorization of human sense-antisense pairs with respect to mouse conservation of expression as well as structure points to limitations of mouse models. Gene structure differences, including at sense-antisense loci, may account for some of the phenotypic distinctions between primates and rodents. Genes in non-conserved sense-antisense pairs may contribute to evolutionary lineage-specific regulatory outcomes.
topic Expressed Sequence Tags
Transcriptome
evolution
Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA)
bidirectional promoter
ESTs
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2013.00183/full
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