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Mol Biol Cell. 1998 December; 9(12): 3273–3297.
PMCID: PMC25624
Comprehensive Identification of Cell Cycle–regulated Genes of the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Microarray HybridizationD in Box
Paul T. Spellman,* Gavin Sherlock,* Michael Q. Zhang, Vishwanath R. Iyer,§ Kirk Anders,* Michael B. Eisen,* Patrick O. Brown,§ David Botstein,* and Bruce Futcher
*Department of Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94306-5120; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724-2209; §Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California 94306-5428; and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California 94305-5428
Gerald R. Fink, Monitoring Editor
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Corresponding author.
Received September 4, 1998; Accepted October 15, 1998.
Abstract
We sought to create a comprehensive catalog of yeast genes whose transcript levels vary periodically within the cell cycle. To this end, we used DNA microarrays and samples from yeast cultures synchronized by three independent methods: α factor arrest, elutriation, and arrest of a cdc15 temperature-sensitive mutant. Using periodicity and correlation algorithms, we identified 800 genes that meet an objective minimum criterion for cell cycle regulation. In separate experiments, designed to examine the effects of inducing either the G1 cyclin Cln3p or the B-type cyclin Clb2p, we found that the mRNA levels of more than half of these 800 genes respond to one or both of these cyclins. Furthermore, we analyzed our set of cell cycle–regulated genes for known and new promoter elements and show that several known elements (or variations thereof) contain information predictive of cell cycle regulation. A full description and complete data sets are available at http://cellcycle-www.stanford.edu