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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
SUBMITTER: Alex Rolfe
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19685 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Wu Chia-Yung CY Rolfe P Alexander PA Gifford David K DK Fink Gerald R GR
PLoS biology 20101102 11
Cell size increases significantly with increasing ploidy. Differences in cell size and ploidy are associated with alterations in gene expression, although no direct connection has been made between cell size and transcription. Here we show that ploidy-associated changes in gene expression reflect transcriptional adjustment to a larger cell size, implicating cellular geometry as a key parameter in gene regulation. Using RNA-seq, we identified genes whose expression was altered in a tetraploid as ...[more]