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GENOME RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages 1198-1210Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gr.245456.118
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- Beaumont Award from Saint Louis University
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Transcription initiation is finely regulated to ensure proper expression and function of genes. The regulated transcription initiation in response to various environmental stimuli in a classic model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae has not been systematically investigated. In this study, we generated quantitative maps of transcription start sites (TSSs) at a single-nucleotide resolution for S. cerevisiae grown in nine different conditions using no-amplification nontagging Cap analysis of gene expression (nAnT-iCAGE) sequencing. We mapped similar to 1 million well-supported TSSs, suggesting highly pervasive transcription initiation in the compact genome of the budding yeast. The comprehensive TSS maps allowed us to identify core promoters for similar to 96% verified protein-coding genes. We corrected misannotation of translation start codon for 122 genes and suggested an alternative start codon for 57 genes. We found that 56% of yeast genes are controlled by multiple core promoters, and alternative core promoter usage by a gene is widespread in response to changing environments. Most core promoter shifts are coupled with altered gene expression, indicating that alternative core promoter usage might play an important role in controlling gene transcriptional activities. Based on their activities in responding to environmental cues, we divided core promoters into constitutive class (55%) and inducible class (45%). The two classes of core promoters display distinctive patterns in transcriptional abundance, chromatin structure, promoter shape, and sequence context. In summary, our study improved the annotation of the yeast genome and demonstrated a much more pervasive and dynamic nature of transcription initiation in yeast than previously recognized.
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