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Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in human promoters and 3' UTRs by comparison of several mammals
ProjectmicroRNA
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Categories		 Transcriptional Regulation
AbstractComprehensive identification of all functional elements encoded in the human genome is a fundamental need in biomedical research. Here, we present a comparative analysis of the human, mouse, rat and dog genomes to create a systematic catalogue of common regulatory motifs in promoters and 3' untranslated regions (3' UTRs). The promoter analysis yields 174 candidate motifs, including most previously known transcription-factor binding sites and 105 new motifs. The 30-UTR analysis yields 106 motifs likely to be involved in post-transcriptional regulation. Nearly one-half are associated with microRNAs (miRNAs), leading to the discovery of many new miRNA genes and their likely target genes. Our results suggest that previous estimates of the number of human miRNA genes were low, and that miRNAs regulate at least 20% of human genes. The overall results provide a systematic view of gene regulation in the human, which will be refined as additional mammalian genomes become available.
AuthorsXiaohui Xie, Jun Lu, E. J. Kulbokas, Todd R. Golub, Vamsi Mootha, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Eric S. Lander and Manolis Kellis
Publication Date03/17/2005
Contact emails manoli@mit.edu
lander@broad.mit.edu
Publication URLhttp://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v434/n7031/abs/nature03441_fs.html&dynoptions=doi1112206951
CitationNature. 2005 Mar 17;434(7031):338-45