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PLOS GENETICS
Volume 1, Issue 3, Pages 380-393Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010039
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI50562, R21 AI050562, R33 AI050562, AI 14666] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCR NIH HHS [R01 DE014666, DE 14666] Funding Source: Medline
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Differences in gene expression underlie many of the phenotypic variations between related organisms, yet approaches to characterize such differences on a genome-wide scale are not well developed. Here, we introduce the differential clustering algorithm for revealing conserved and diverged co-expression patterns. Our approach is applied at different levels of organization, ranging from pair-wise correlations within specific groups of functionally linked genes, to higher-order correlations between such groups. Using the differential clustering algorithm, we systematically compared the transcription program of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans with that of the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Many of the identified differences are related to the differential requirement for mitochondrial function in the two yeasts. Distinct regulation patterns of cell cycle genes and of amino acid metabolic genes were also revealed and, in some cases, could be linked to the differential appearance of cis-regulatory elements in the gene promoter regions. Our study provides a comprehensive framework for comparative gene expression analysis and a rich source of hypotheses for uncharacterized open reading frames and putative cis-regulatory elements in C albicans.
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