Journal: BMC Genomics
Article Title: Genome-wide expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis in maize
doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-336
Figure Lengend Snippet: Unexpected expression regulation of a pseudogene results from sequence variation in the carboxy terminal of glutamine amidotransferase . A The B73 and Mo17derived sequences for the trans-regulator glutamine amidotransferase code for nearly identical proteins. Blue boxes highlight residues different from the B73 reference sequence. Fine mapping of the eQTL to a 186 bp interval determined that the carboxy-terminus accounts for the trans-regulation, black bar . Class I glutamine amidotransferase proteins require the conserved C-H-E triad (red boxes) for their expected enzymatic functions suggesting that, despite the sequence differences between the genotypes, the proteins likely remain functional in their expected pathway in situ. B Genomic structure on chromosome 1(BAC AC177817) that encodes for the pseudogene is derived from chimerization of 1.5 exons of the functional ABA 8'-hydroxylase genic region (blue bar, blue exons) of chromosome 4 (BAC AC182187), a 5' element enabling transcription originating from chromosome 10 (green bar; BAC AC194847), and genomically non-unique sequence (yellow dashed bar, yellow exons). The microarray probe (red bar) used to measure the pseudogene is unique within the transcriptome.
Article Snippet: The Agilent microarray expression data (raw and processed) are available from GEO (Series Accession GSE29964).
Techniques: Expressing, Sequencing, Functional Assay, In Situ, Derivative Assay, Microarray