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Title: Finding trans-regulatory genes and protein complexes modulating meiotic recombination hotspots of human, mouse and yeast
Authors: Wu, Min
Kwoh, Chee-Keong
Li, Xiaoli
Zheng, Jie
Keywords: DRNTU::Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology
Issue Date: 2014
Source: Wu, M., Kwoh, C.-K., Li, X., & Zheng, J. (2014). Finding trans-regulatory genes and protein complexes modulating meiotic recombination hotspots of human, mouse and yeast. BMC systems biology, 8(1).
Series/Report no.: BMC systems biology
Abstract: Background: The regulatory mechanism of recombination is one of the most fundamental problems in genomics, with wide applications in genome wide association studies (GWAS), birth-defect diseases, molecular evolution, cancer research, etc. Recombination events cluster into short genomic regions called “recombination hotspots”. Recently, a zinc finger protein PRDM9 was reported to regulate recombination hotspots in human and mouse genomes. In addition, a 13-mer motif contained in the binding sites of PRDM9 is found to be enriched in human hotspots. However, this 13-mer motif only covers a fraction of hotspots, indicating that PRDM9 is not the only regulator of recombination hotspots. Therefore, the challenge of discovering other regulators of recombination hotspots becomes significant. Furthermore, recombination is a complex process. Hence, multiple proteins acting as machinery, rather than individual proteins, are more likely to carry out this process in a precise and stable manner. Therefore, the extension of the prediction of individual trans-regulators to protein complexes is also highly desired. Results: In this paper, we introduce a pipeline to identify genes and protein complexes associated with recombination hotspots. First, we prioritize proteins associated with hotspots based on their preference of binding to hotspots and coldspots. Second, using the above identified genes as seeds, we apply the Random Walk with Restart algorithm (RWR) to propagate their influences to other proteins in protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks. Hence, many proteins without DNA-binding information will also be assigned a score to implicate their roles in recombination hotspots. Third, we construct sub-PPI networks induced by top genes ranked by RWR for various species (e.g., yeast, human and mouse) and detect protein complexes in those sub-PPI networks. Conclusions: The GO term analysis show that our prioritizing methods and the RWR algorithm are capable of identifying novel genes associated with recombination hotspots. The trans-regulators predicted by our pipeline are enriched with epigenetic functions (e.g., histone modifications), demonstrating the epigenetic regulatory mechanisms of recombination hotspots. The identified protein complexes also provide us with candidates to further investigate the molecular machineries for recombination hotspots. Moreover, the experimental data and results are available on our web site http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/zhengjie/data/RecombinationHotspot/NetPipe/.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/100580
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24144
ISSN: 1752-0509
DOI: 10.1186/s12918-014-0107-1
Schools: School of Computer Engineering 
Rights: © 2014 Wu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
Fulltext Permission: open
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