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Module 170 Profile

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Network Help

A network view of the module is created using cytoscapeWeb and enables dynamic, interactive exploration of the module properties. In this view, module member genes, motifs, and regulatory influences are represented as peripheral nodes connected to core module node via edges.

Module members are green circles, regulators are red triangles and motifs are blue diamonds. Selection of a node gives access to detailed information in a pop-up window, which allows dragging and pinning to compare multiple selections. Selecting module members will show information about the selected gene such as name, species and fucntions. Motif selection will show motif logo image and e-values. Bicluster selction will show expression profile and summary statistics for the module.

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Regulators for Module 170

There are 8 regulatory influences for Module 170

Regulator Table (8)
Regulator Name Type
CAC1086 tf
CAC2966 tf
CAC0155 tf
CAC3669 tf
CAC0493 tf
CAC0707 tf
CAC2060 tf
CAC0461 tf

Regulator Help

For each module, single or AND logic connected regulatory influences are listed under the regulators tab. These regulatory influences are identified by Inferelator. Table shows name of the regulator and its type.

tf: Transcription factor

ef: Environmental factor

combiner: Combinatorial influence of a tf or an ef through logic gate. Table is sortable by clicking on the arrows next to column headers.

Motif information (de novo identified motifs for modules)

There are 2 motifs predicted.

Motif Table (2)
Motif Id e-value Consensus Motif Logo
6992 2.00e+00 GagGtgT
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6993 1.50e+01 AcaT.TtGaaAACGata.Ca
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Motif Help

Transcription factor binding motifs help to elucidate regulatory mechanism. cMonkey integrates powerful de novo motif detection to identify conditionally co-regulated sets of genes. De novo predicted motifs for each module are listed in the module page as motif logo images along with associated prediction statistics (e-values). The main module page also shows the location of these motifs within the upstream sequences of the module member genes.

Motifs of interest can be broadcasted to RegPredict (currently only available for Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough) in order to compare conservation in similar species. This integrated motif prediction and comparative analysis provides an additional checkpoint for regulatory motif prediction confidence.

Motif e-value: cMonkey tries to identify two motifs per modules in the upstream sequences of the module member genes. Motif e-value is an indicative of the motif co-occurences between the members of the module.Smaller e-values are indicative of significant sequence motifs. Our experience showed that e-values smaller than 10 are generally indicative of significant motifs.

Functional Enrichment

Regulon 170 is enriched for following functions.

TIGRFam Enrichment Table

Function Name Function Type Unadjusted pvalue Benjamini& Hochberg pvalue Genes with function Method
Transport and binding proteins tigr mainrole 8.64e-04 1.53e-03 3/23
Carbohydrates, organic alcohols, and acids tigr sub1role 0.00e+00 1.00e-06 3/23

COG Enrichment Table

Function Name Function Type Unadjusted pvalue Benjamini& Hochberg pvalue Genes with function Method
Metabolism cog category 1.00e-06 4.00e-06 16/23
Carbohydrate transport and metabolism cog subcategory 0.00e+00 0.00e+00 16/23
Functions Help

Biological networks contain sets of regulatory units called functional modules that together play a role in regulation of specific functional processes. Connections between different modules in the network can help identify regulatory relationships such as hierarchy and epistasis. In addition, associating functions with modules enables putative assignment of functions to hypothetical genes. It is therefore essential to identify functional enrichment of modules within the regulatory network.

Functional annotations from single sources are often either not available or not complete. Therefore, we integrated KEGG pathway, Gene Ontology, TIGRFam and COG information as references for functional enrichment analysis.

We use hypergeometric p-values to identify significant overlaps between co-regulated module members and genes assigned to a particular functional annotation category. P-values are corrected for multiple comparisons by using Benjamini-Hochberg correction and filtered for p-values ≤ 0.05.

Network Portal presents functional ontologies from KEGG, GO, TIGRFAM, and COG as separate tables that include function name, type, corrected and uncorrected hypergeometric p-values, and the number of genes assigned to this category out of total number of genes in the module.

Members for Module 170

There are 23 genes in Module 170

Gene Member Table (23)
Name Common name Type Gene ID Chromosome Start End Strand Description TF
CAC0155 MtlR CDS None chromosome 175951 178005 + Putative regulator of the PTS system for mannitol (gene MltR) (NCBI ptt file) True
CAC0156 MltF CDS None chromosome 177998 178438 + PTS system, mannitol-specific IIA domain (Ntr-type) (gene MltF) (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0157 MtlD CDS None chromosome 178440 179594 + Possible sigma factor, diverged member of sigF/sigE/sigG family (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0356 CAC0356 CDS None chromosome 414952 415593 - Similar to hypothetical protein [Thermotoga maritima] (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0359 CAC0359 CDS None chromosome 418204 419289 - Similar to yteR (Bacilus subtilis) (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0694 CAC0694 CDS None chromosome 801646 802995 + Permease of the Na+: galactoside symporter family (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0695 CAC0695 CDS None chromosome 803138 804586 + Altronate oxidoreductase (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0696 CAC0696 CDS None chromosome 804608 806086 + Putative altronate dehydratase (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0697 CAC0697 CDS None chromosome 806192 807214 + Galactose mutarotase related enzyme (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0706 CAC0706 CDS None chromosome 816062 818230 + Endo-1,4-beta glucanase (fused to two ricin-B-like domains) (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC0707 rpoN CDS None chromosome 818506 819900 + RNA polymerase sigma-54 factor (NCBI ptt file) True
CAC1080 CAC1080 CDS None chromosome 1239742 1243425 + Uncharacterized protein, probably surface-located (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC1345 xylT CDS None chromosome 1487155 1488522 + D-xylose-proton symporter (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC1529 CAC1529 CDS None chromosome 1670230 1671213 + Beta-xylosidase, family 43 glycosyl hydrolase (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC2570 ganA CDS None chromosome 2672224 2673306 + Predicted arabinogalactan endo-1,4-beta-galactosidase (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC2956 CAC2956 CDS None chromosome 3089379 3090791 - PTS system enzyme IIC component (galactitol/fructose specific) (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC2957 CAC2957 CDS None chromosome 3091014 3091319 - PTS system IIB component (galactitol/fructose specific) (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC2960 GalE CDS None chromosome 3093509 3094498 + UDP-galactose 4-epimerase (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC2966 lacR CDS None chromosome 3100856 3101620 - Lactose phosphotransferase system repressor lacR (NCBI ptt file) True
CAC3425 glvC CDS None chromosome 3611039 3612595 + PTS system, (possibly glucose-specific) IIBC component (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC3426 glvG CDS None chromosome 3612597 3613934 + 6-phospho-alpha-glucosidase (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC3451 CAC3451 CDS None chromosome 3646257 3647633 + Sugar/Na+(H+) simporter (NCBI ptt file) False
CAC3452 xynD CDS None chromosome 3647630 3649231 + Beta-xylosidase, family 43 glycosyl hydrolase (NCBI ptt file) False

Genes Help

Gene member table shows all the genes included in the module. Listed attributes are;

  1. Name: Gene name or Locus tag
  2. Common Name: Gene short name
  3. Type: Type of the feature, usually CDS.
  4. Gene ID: Link to NCBI Gene ID
  5. Chromosome: Chromosome name from annotation file
  6. Start/End:Feature start and end coordinates
  7. Strand: strand of the gene
  8. Description: Description of the gene from annotation file
  9. TF: If the gene is a Transcription Factor or not.

If you are browsing the Network Portal by using Gaggle/Firegoose, firegoose plugin will capture the NameList of the gene members. Captured names can be saved into your Workspace by clicking on "Capture" in the firegoose toolbar or can be directly sent other desktop and web resources by using "Broadcast" option.

Help

What is a module?

Regulatory units (modules) in the Network Portal are based on the network inference algorithm used. For the current version, modules are based on cMonkey modules and Inferelator regulatory influences on these modules. More specifically, module refers to set of genes that are conditionally co-regulated under subset of the conditions. Identification of modules integrates co-expression, de-novo motif identification, and other functional associations such as operon information and protein-protein interactions.

Module Overview

The landing module page shows quick summary info including co-expression profiles, de-novo identified motifs, and transcription factors and/or environmental factors as regulatory influences. It also includes module residual, motif e-values, conditions and links to other resources such as NCBI and Microbesonline. . If a transcription factor is included in the manually curated RegPrecise database, further information from RegPrecise is shown, allowing users to perform comparative analysis.

Expression Profiles

Expression profiles is a plot of the expression ratios (log10) of the module's genes, over all subset of the conditions included in the module. The X-axis represent conditions and the Y-axis represents log10 expression ratios. Each gene is plotted as line plot with different colors. Colored legend for the lines are presented under the plot. This plot is dynamic. Clicking on the gene names in the legend will show/hide the plot for that particular gene. A tooltip will show expression ratio information if you mouseover the lines in the plot.

Motif Locations

Location of the Identified motifs for the module in the upstream regions of the member genes are shown under the expression profiles plot. This plot shows the diagram of the upstream positions of the motifs, colored red and green for motifs #1, and 2, respectively. Intensity of the color is proportional to the significance of the occurence of that motif at a given location. Motifs on the forward and reverse strand are represented over and under the line respectively.

Network

A network view of the module is created using cytoscapeWeb and enables dynamic, interactive exploration of the module properties. In this view, module member genes, motifs, and regulatory influences are represented as peripheral nodes connected to core module node via edges. Module members are green circles, regulators are red triangles and motifs are blue diamonds. Selection of a node gives access to detailed information in a pop-up window, which allows dragging and pinning to compare multiple selections. Selecting module members will show information about the selected gene such as name, species and fucntions. Motif selection will show motif logo image and e-values. Bicluster selction will show expression profile and summary statistics for the module.

GeneModule member RegulatorRegulator MotifMotif

Regulators

For each module, single or AND logic connected regulatory influences are listed under the regulators tab. These regulatory influences are identified by Inferelator. Table shows name of the regulator and its type. tf: Transcription factor, ef: Environmental factor and combiner:Combinatorial influence of a tf or an ef through logic gate. Tabel is sortable by clicking on the arrows next to column headers.

Motifs

Transcription factor binding motifs help to elucidate regulatory mechanism. cMonkey integrates powerful de novo motif detection to identify conditionally co-regulated sets of genes. De novo predicted motifs for each module are listed in the module page as motif logo images along with associated prediction statistics (e-values). The main module page also shows the location of these motifs within the upstream sequences of the module member genes.

Motifs of interest can be broadcasted to RegPredict (currently only available for Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough) in order to compare conservation in similar species. This integrated motif prediction and comparative analysis provides an additional checkpoint for regulatory motif prediction confidence.

Functions

Biological networks contain sets of regulatory units called functional modules that together play a role in regulation of specific functional processes. Connections between different modules in the network can help identify regulatory relationships such as hierarchy and epistasis. In addition, associating functions with modules enables putative assignment of functions to hypothetical genes. It is therefore essential to identify functional enrichment of modules within the regulatory network.

Functional annotations from single sources are often either not available or not complete. Therefore, we integrated KEGG pathway, Gene Ontology, TIGRFam and COG information as references for functional enrichment analysis.

We use hypergeometric p-values to identify significant overlaps between co-regulated module members and genes assigned to a particular functional annotation category. P-values are corrected for multiple comparisons by using Benjamini-Hochberg correction and filtered for p-values ≤ 0.05.

Network Portal presents functional ontologies from KEGG, GO, TIGRFAM, and COG as separate tables that include function name, type, corrected and uncorrected hypergeometric p-values, and the number of genes assigned to this category out of total number of genes in the module.

Genes

Gene member table shows all the genes included in the module. Listed attributes are;

  1. Name: Gene name or Locus tag
  2. Common Name: Gene short name
  3. Type: Type of the feature, usually CDS.
  4. Gene ID: Link to NCBI Gene ID
  5. Chromosome: Chromosome name from annotation file
  6. Start/End:Feature start and end coordinates
  7. Strand: strand of the gene
  8. Description: Description of the gene from annotation file
  9. TF: If the gene is a Transcription Factor or not.

If you are browsing the Network Portal by using Gaggle/Firegoose, firegoose plugin will capture the NameList of the gene members. Captured names can be saved into your Workspace by clicking on "Capture" in the firegoose toolbar or can be directly sent other desktop and web resources by using "Broadcast" option.

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Definitions

Residual: is a measure of bicluster quality. Mean bicluster residual is smaller when the expression profile of the genes in the module is "tighter". So smaller residuals are usually indicative of better bicluster quality.

Expression Profile: is a preview of the expression profiles of all the genes under subset of conditions included in the module. Tighter expression profiles are usually indicative of better bicluster quality.

Motif e-value: cMonkey tries to identify two motifs per modules in the upstream sequences of the module member genes. Motif e-value is an indicative of the motif co-occurences between the members of the module.Smaller e-values are indicative of significant sequence motifs. Our experience showed that e-values smaller than 10 are generally indicative of significant motifs.

Genes: Number of genes included in the module.

Functions: We identify functional enrichment of each module by camparing to different functional categories such as KEGG, COG, GO etc. by using hypergeometric function. If the module is significantly enriched for any of the functions, this column will list few of the these functions as an overview. Full list of functions is available upon visiting the module page under the Functions tab.