Computational approaches for the analysis of gene neighbourhoods in prokaryotic genomes |
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Authors: | Rogozin Igor B Makarova Kira S Wolf Yuri I Koonin Eugene V |
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Affiliation: | NCBI/NLM/NIH, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 38A, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. rogozin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |
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Abstract: | Gene order in prokaryotes is conserved to a much lesser extent than protein sequences. Only some operons, primarily those that encode physically interacting proteins, are conserved in all or most of the bacterial and archaeal genomes. Nevertheless, even the limited conservation of operon organisation that is observed provides valuable evolutionary and functional clues through multiple genome comparisons. With the rapid growth in the number and diversity of sequenced prokaryotic genomes, functional inferences for uncharacterized genes located in the same conserved gene neighborhood with well-studied genes are becoming increasingly important. In this review, we discuss various computational approaches for identification of conserved gene strings and construction of local alignments of gene orders in prokaryotic genomes. |
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Keywords: | gene order operon phylogenetic analysis functional signal local alignment dot-plot conserved gene pair |
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