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1 Statistical modeling of non-coding DNA 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June 2003

2 Overview Investigation of Inverted Repeats (IRs) in complete genomes of bacteria; IReD a web server of Inverted Repeats in Bacteria; Density and robustness of coding information in the human complete genome; Inverted repeats in complete genomes of Viruses; 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

3 The OCS team Fabrizio Lillo Salvatore Miccichè Markus Kollmann Rosario N. Mantegna 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

4 Inverted Repeats in Bacteria TGGGTCTGCTAAATATTTAGCAGACCAAAGTTG GGTCTGCTAAATATTTAGCAGACCCAA A single strand DNA (or RNA) can present a nucleotide sequence (IR) allowing the formation of a hairpin structure (in RNA) or of a cruciform structure (in DNA). work done by F. Lillo and S. Basile 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

5 Stem Loop Statistical modeling of non-coding DNA Stem and loop in IRs T T A T C C T A G T T A T A G G A T G G 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

6 Statistical modeling of non-coding DNA Biological role of Irs in bacteria Inverted repeats may form hairpin structures in mrna and play the role of Rho-independent transcription terminator 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

7 IRs might have regulatory function Example: In the presence of tryptophan, E. coli makes an RNA corresponding to about the 5' most 140 nt of trp operon mrna. In the absence of tryptophan, a full length RNA is made. 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

8 8 archaebacteria The set of investigated genomes A. pernix B. fulgidus Halobacterium M. jannaschii M. thermoautotrophicum P. abyssi P. horikoshii T. acidophilum 5 chlamydiales C. pneumoniae AR39 C. pneumoniae CWL029 C. pneumoniae J138 C. trachomatis C. trachomatis ser D 6 firmicutes B. halodurans B. subtilis M. genitalium M. pneumoniae U. urealyticum M. tubercolosis 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

9 The set of investigated genomes 12 proteobacteria R. prowazekii N. meningitidis ser A N. meningitidis ser B C. jejuni H. pylori H. pylory J99 Buchnera sp. E. coli H. influenzae P. aeruginosa V. cholerae Chr I V. cholerae Chr II X. fastidiosa 6 others A. aeolicus B. burgdorferi T. pallidum D. radiodurans Chr I D. radiodurans Chr II Synechocystis sp. T. maritima 37 complete genomes! 77.8 million base pairs 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

10 ex Null hypothesis A null hypothesis for the expected number n ex of IRs of stem length l and loop length m can be done by assuming a Bernoullian DNA ( ) ( ) 2 l, m = N 1 2P P 2P P ( 2P P + P P ) l n 2 A T N is the length of the genome and P x is the probability of nucleotide x C G A T C G 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

11 l l a 5 10 m 5 10 m Number of detected IRs b c d e 5 10 m 5 10 m 5 10 m (a) A. fulgidus (b) C. pneumoniae CWL029 (c) E. coli (d) B. subtilis (e) Synechocystis sp. In most cases (but not all) IRs are more abundant than expected by the null hypothesis. The number of IRs depends on m!! 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

12 % of IR in ncdna Coding vs noncoding I II III IV V ratio nc/cod đ l=6 đ l=7 đ l=8 đ l>8 In eubacteris IRs with a long stem are preferentially located in noncoding regions 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

13 Is there a preferential location of IRs? For different regions of intergenic DNA exist (ii) cn intergenic (5 5 ) e s s e (i) nn intergenic (3 5 ) s e s e (ii) cc intergenic (5 3 ) e s e s (ii) nc intergenic (3 3 ) s e e s 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

14 P(d) P(d) P(d) P(d) Is there a preferential location of IRs? l=6 E. coli l= l= l> d 5 (nt) l= l= l= l> d 3 (nt) IRs with a long stem preferentially locate at approx 40 bp nearby a 3 end of a coding region 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

15 P(d 3 ) P(d 3 ) P(d 3 ) a b c d 3 (nt) Other examples d e d 3 (nt) f Legend (a) B. halodurans (b) B. subtilis (c) N. meningitidis ser B (d) E. coli (e) P. aeruginosa (f) V. cholerae Chr I 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

16 Are all this IRs transcription terminators? The set of IRs we find is bigger of the set of rho-independent transcription terminators found by Ermolaeva et al with bioinformatics methods based on biological information obtained from E. coli Ermolaeva M.D., Khalak H.G., White O., Smith H.O., Salzberg S.L., Prediction of transcription terminators in bacterial genomes, J. Mol. Biol. 301, (2000) 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

17 An IR web server: IReD Realized by: Tiziana Castrignanò 1, Fabrizio Lillo 2, Alessandro Canali 1, Antonella Pintus 1, Rosario N. Mantegna 2 1 Caspur ; 2 OCS INFM Palermo 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

18 IReD IReD is a large collection of inverted repeat DNA sequences. Information about the specific sequence, location and positioning with respect to nearby coding regions of each detected inverted repeat is provided. IReD makes use of completely sequenced genomes publicly available. The present release presents a large number of inverted repeats detected in complete genomes of 84 bacteria, 16 archaea and their plasmids. IReD allows searching and browsing inverted repeats in all investigated genomes. 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

19 Browsing IRed Aeropyrum pernix View of Locus in Archaea Domain, CRENARCHAEA Family Locus Name: NC_000854, DNA circular 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

20 Statistical modeling of non-coding DNA An example of a archaebacterium Listing of Inverted (Organism Aeropyrum pernix, Chromosome, Locus NC_000854); acgttaaa 8 aaag Intergenic_NC tgttaacc 8 tg Intergenic_NC cagccccc 8 ttgggcg Intergenic_NC accccgcc 8 cccgggat Intergenic_NC aagcgttt 8 tcc Intergenic_NC ctgcccgg 8 cccac Intergenic_NC cttttagg 8 actaccgcg Intergenic_NC taggccca 8 tt Intergenic_NC ccaggggc 8 tccgggg Intergenic_NC gccaagtc 8 gaatata Intergenic_NC agacgccc 8 cagacc Intergenic_NC tttacatg 8 ca Intergenic_NC ggaagcccc 9 tg Intergenic_NC cccccgcgg 9 gg Intergenic_NC ccagccccc 9 acaggcgc Intergenic_NC caaaacttc 9 ttgagg Intergenic_NC gcctcctag 9 cct Intergenic_NC ttagataggc 10 attcaacacca Intergenic_NC ccccccggcg 10 gg Intergenic_NC Total of 20 IRs ttagataggc 10 attcaacatca Intergenic_NC /06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

21 Statistical modeling of non-coding DNA An example of a purple bacterium Escherichia coli K12 View of Locus in Bacteria Domain, PURPLE Family Locus Name: NC_000913, DNA circular 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

22 IRs in E. coli aatgccgg 8 gtaacaat Intergenic_NC ctccccca 8 aagttaagg Intergenic_NC ttgccgga 8 aca Intergenic_NC gcgcctgc 8 cgggtagta Intergenic_NC gcctgata 8 agcgcagcg Intergenic_NC ggggcaac 8 attta Intergenic_NC gccacggt 8 ataa Intergenic_NC aagtggct 8 tgaggg Intergenic_NC ggcttttt 8 tatggcatt Intergenic_NC gccggagg 8 aaacttg Intergenic_NC taagtaat 8 tattacagg Intergenic_NC 94 5 gcccgtcc 8 agtggc Intergenic_NC aagccctc 8 aacgc Intergenic_NC 9 19 aagccgca 8 tg Intergenic_NC aaccgggg 8 tttcgg Intergenic_NC agcccgct 8 tttc Intergenic_NC caaaatca 8 aaataatg Intergenic_NC accgccgg 8 taacc Intergenic_NC caactggc 8 tgtc Intergenic_NC gccggatg 8 cgacgtaacca Intergenic_NC The first 20 IRs of 294 found 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

23 Human-mouse genomes comparison The idea is to use the human-mouse most conserved DNA regions to select regions of the human genomes whose function may or may not be known There are highly conserved sequences both in coding and in noncoding regions 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

24 Statistical modeling of non-coding DNA Extreme value statistics of n-gram Shannon Entropy Human complete genome DNA sequences highly conserved (>75%) between mouse and human DNA work done by Markus Kollmann 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

25 IRs in complete genomes of viruses There are 746 complete genomes of viruses completely sequenced They are classified as D satellite 40 D retroid 76 D ss RNA D ss RNA - 33 D ds RNA 20 D ss DNA 99 D ds DNA 198 D others 8 The length is varying from a minimum of 220 bps to a maximum of bp work done by S.Miccichè and F. Lillo 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

26 p value Cumulative probability IRs in complete genomes of viruses Complete genomes of viruses (746) p value We perform a χ 2 test to evaluate if the number of detected IRs is compatible with the null hypothesis of Bernoullian DNA p-values are less than 0.05 in 67% of genomes 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

27 Conclusion DNon coding DNA sequences have interesting statistical properties in Bacteria, Eukaryotes and viruses; Dnoncoding DNA regions present a dishomogeneity in the density of information. Physicists can contribute to the dtection of this dishomogeneity to locate DNA sequences of potential biological importance. 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

28 References Fabrizio Lillo, Salvatore Basile and Rosario N. Mantegna, Comparative genomics study of inverted repeats in bacteria, Bioinformatics 18, (2002). T. Castrignanò, F. Lillo, A. Canali, A. Pintus, R.N. Mantegna, IReD Server: an Inverted Repeat Server on the web, manuscript in preparation Database: OCS pre-prints and re-prints can be downloaded at: 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

29 Acknowledge of funding: - PA Sez. G INFM; - Marie Curie host development Fellowship; - FISR A novel approach to drug design: from statistical mechanics to the screening of anti-viral drugs 25/06/03 Infmeeting, Genova June

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