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Here, the yeast prion Sup35, was investigated by applying genome neighbourhood analysis, fusion protein analysis, phylogenetic profiling analysis and mRNA correlation analysis. A dense network of predicted functional relationships could be reconstructed (yellow circles: proteins involved in protein synthesis and folding; red: tRNA/mRNA synthesis or splicing, as well as ribosome biogenesis; blue: protein targeting; white: unknown or other functional category). Thick lines correspond to functional links that have been predicted independently by more than one computational method, while the dashed lines indicate the few experimental evidences available (modified after [40,78]).
If the species have too far diverged in the course of evolution, then it is likely that the ‘‘noise’’ of the non-functional sequence background will obscure the short, though functional binding sites. In this case, the various programs for aligning the genomic DNA typically used for phylogenetic footprinting may not align the short regulatory sequences together. Thus, the regulatory elements would not appear to belong to conserved regions and would go undetected [94]. If the species have extremely far diverged, then it might be that completely different regulatory proteins are used for regulating orthologous genes, or that the regulatory proteins recognise completely different DNA sequences.
Little experimental data for defining PWMs For most transcription factors, there are just not enough experimentally defined binding sites available to define a reasonable PWM model for the factor’s binding site. Without having sufficient experimental input, the TFBS PWM models are normally not optimally defined, and can therefore result in spurious hits. A second limitation is that many binding sites have only a low-binding specificity. For instance, it is difficult to come up with a PWM characterizing the C/EBP factor (CCAAT/enhancer binding protein), as the known binding sites are very diverse in their sequences [116].