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Determining physical mechanisms of gene expression regulation from single cell gene expression data
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Ioshikhes, Ilya, Ezer, Daphne, Moignard, Victoria, Göttgens, Berthold and Adryan, Boris (2016) Determining physical mechanisms of gene expression regulation from single cell gene expression data. PLoS Computational Biology, 12 (8). e1005072. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005072 ISSN 1553-7358.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005072
Abstract
Many genes are expressed in bursts, which can contribute to cell-to-cell heterogeneity. It is now possible to measure this heterogeneity with high throughput single cell gene expression assays (single cell qPCR and RNA-seq). These experimental approaches generate gene expression distributions which can be used to estimate the kinetic parameters of gene expression bursting, namely the rate that genes turn on, the rate that genes turn off, and the rate of transcription. We construct a complete pipeline for the analysis of single cell qPCR data that uses the mathematics behind bursty expression to develop more accurate and robust algorithms for analyzing the origin of heterogeneity in experimental samples, specifically an algorithm for clustering cells by their bursting behavior (Simulated Annealing for Bursty Expression Clustering, SABEC) and a statistical tool for comparing the kinetic parameters of bursty expression across populations of cells (Estimation of Parameter changes in Kinetics, EPiK). We applied these methods to hematopoiesis, including a new single cell dataset in which transcription factors (TFs) involved in the earliest branchpoint of blood differentiation were individually up- and down-regulated. We could identify two unique sub-populations within a seemingly homogenous group of hematopoietic stem cells. In addition, we could predict regulatory mechanisms controlling the expression levels of eighteen key hematopoietic transcription factors throughout differentiation. Detailed information about gene regulatory mechanisms can therefore be obtained simply from high throughput single cell gene expression data, which should be widely applicable given the rapid expansion of single cell genomics.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Statistics | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS Computational Biology | ||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||
ISSN: | 1553-7358 | ||||||
Official Date: | 23 August 2016 | ||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||
Article Number: | e1005072 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005072 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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