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TRENDS IN GENETICS
卷 26, 期 2, 页码 66-74出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2009.12.002
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- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Ontario Research Fund and Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute
Regulatory regions with similar transcriptional output often have little overt sequence similarity, both within and between genomes. Although cis- and trans-regulatory changes can contribute to sequence divergence without dramatically altering gene expression outputs, heterologous DNA often functions similarly in organisms that share little regulatory sequence similarities (e.g. human DNA in fish), indicating that trans-regulatory mechanisms tend to diverge more slowly and can accommodate a variety of cis-regulatory configurations. This capacity to 'tinker' with regulatory DNA probably relates to the complexity, robustness and evolvability of regulatory systems, but cause-and-effect relationships among evolutionary processes and properties of regulatory systems remain a topic of debate. The challenge of understanding the concrete mechanisms underlying cis-regulatory evolution-including the conservation of function without the conservation of sequence-relates to the challenge of understanding the function of regulatory systems in general. Currently, we are largely unable to recognize functionally similar regulatory DNA.
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