Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Seed storage protein gene promoters contain conserved DNA motifs in Brassicaceae, Fabaceae and Poaceae | BMC Plant Biology BioMed Central Open Access Research article Seed storage protein gene promoters contain conserved DNA motifs in Brassicaceae Fabaceae and Poaceae Francois Fauteux1 2 and Martina V Stromvik 1 2 Address Department of Plant Science McGill University Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Canada and 2McGill Centre for BioinformaticS McGill University Montreal Canada Email Francois Fauteux - Martina V Stromvik - Corresponding author Published 20 October 2009 Received 17 March 2009 BMC Plant Biology 2009 9 126 doi l47l -2229-9-126 Accepted 20 October 2009 This article is available from http l47l-2229 9 l26 2009 Fauteux and Stromvik licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Accurate computational identification of cis-regulatory motifs is difficult particularly in eukaryotic promoters which typically contain multiple short and degenerate DNA sequences bound by several interacting factors. Enrichment in combinations of rare motifs in the promoter sequence of functionally or evolutionarily related genes among several species is an indicator of conserved transcriptional regulatory mechanisms. This provides a basis for the computational identification of cis-regulatory motifs. Results We have used a discriminative seeding DNA motif discovery algorithm for an in-depth analysis of 54 seed storage protein SSP gene promoters from three plant families namely Brassicaceae mustards Fabaceae legumes and Poaceae grasses using backgrounds based on complete sets of promoters from a representative species in each family namely Arabidopsis Arabidopsis thaliana L. Heynh. soybean Glycine max L. Merr. and rice Oryza sativa L. .
