RNA sequencing reveals two major classes of gene expression levels in metazoan cells
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Hebenstreit, Daniel; Fang, Miaoqing; Charoensawan, Varodom; van Oudenaarden, Alexander; Teichmann, Sarah A.
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The expression level of a gene is often used as a proxy for determining whether the
protein or RNA product is functional in a cell or tissue. Therefore, it is of fundamental
importance to understand the global distribution of gene expression levels, and to be
able to interpret it mechanistically and functionally. Here we use RNA sequencing of
mouse Th2 cells, coupled with a range of other techniques, to show that all genes can
be separated, based on their expression abundance, into two distinct groups: one
group comprising of lowly expressed and putatively non-functional mRNAs, and the
other of highly expressed mRNAs with active chromatin marks at their promoters.
Date issued
2011-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Molecular Systems Biology
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Nature Publishing Group
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Hebenstreit, Daniel et al. “RNA sequencing reveals two major classes of gene expression levels in metazoan cells.” Molecular Systems Biology 7 (2011)
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1744-4292