{"acknowledgement":"We thank Hande Acar, Nicholas H Barton, Rok Grah, Tiago Paixao, Maros Pleska, Anna Staron, and Murat Tugrul for insightful comments and input on the manuscript. This work was supported by: Sir Henry Dale Fellowship jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society (grant number 216779/Z/19/Z) to ML; IPC Grant from IST Austria to ML and SS; European Research Council Funding Programme 7 (2007–2013, grant agreement number 648440) to JPB.","has_accepted_license":"1","oa_version":"Published Version","quality_controlled":"1","file":[{"date_created":"2022-02-07T07:14:09Z","date_updated":"2022-02-07T07:14:09Z","file_name":"2022_ELife_Lagator.pdf","relation":"main_file","content_type":"application/pdf","success":1,"access_level":"open_access","file_size":5604343,"creator":"cchlebak","file_id":"10739","checksum":"decdcdf600ff51e9a9703b49ca114170"}],"doi":"10.7554/eLife.64543","pmid":1,"volume":11,"citation":{"mla":"Lagator, Mato, et al. “Predicting Bacterial Promoter Function and Evolution from Random Sequences.” <i>ELife</i>, vol. 11, e64543, eLife Sciences Publications, 2022, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64543\">10.7554/eLife.64543</a>.","chicago":"Lagator, Mato, Srdjan Sarikas, Magdalena Steinrück, David Toledo-Aparicio, Jonathan P Bollback, Calin C Guet, and Gašper Tkačik. “Predicting Bacterial Promoter Function and Evolution from Random Sequences.” <i>ELife</i>. eLife Sciences Publications, 2022. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64543\">https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64543</a>.","ama":"Lagator M, Sarikas S, Steinrück M, et al. Predicting bacterial promoter function and evolution from random sequences. <i>eLife</i>. 2022;11. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64543\">10.7554/eLife.64543</a>","short":"M. Lagator, S. Sarikas, M. Steinrück, D. Toledo-Aparicio, J.P. Bollback, C.C. Guet, G. Tkačik, ELife 11 (2022).","ieee":"M. Lagator <i>et al.</i>, “Predicting bacterial promoter function and evolution from random sequences,” <i>eLife</i>, vol. 11. eLife Sciences Publications, 2022.","ista":"Lagator M, Sarikas S, Steinrück M, Toledo-Aparicio D, Bollback JP, Guet CC, Tkačik G. 2022. Predicting bacterial promoter function and evolution from random sequences. eLife. 11, e64543.","apa":"Lagator, M., Sarikas, S., Steinrück, M., Toledo-Aparicio, D., Bollback, J. P., Guet, C. C., &#38; Tkačik, G. (2022). Predicting bacterial promoter function and evolution from random sequences. <i>ELife</i>. eLife Sciences Publications. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64543\">https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64543</a>"},"article_type":"original","date_published":"2022-01-26T00:00:00Z","oa":1,"status":"public","date_updated":"2025-03-31T16:00:23Z","intvolume":"        11","publisher":"eLife Sciences Publications","ddc":["576"],"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"department":[{"_id":"CaGu"},{"_id":"GaTk"},{"_id":"NiBa"}],"_id":"10736","author":[{"id":"345D25EC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Lagator","first_name":"Mato","full_name":"Lagator, Mato"},{"full_name":"Sarikas, Srdjan","last_name":"Sarikas","id":"35F0286E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Srdjan"},{"full_name":"Steinrück, Magdalena","last_name":"Steinrück","id":"2C023F40-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Magdalena","orcid":"0000-0003-1229-9719"},{"full_name":"Toledo-Aparicio, David","last_name":"Toledo-Aparicio","first_name":"David"},{"full_name":"Bollback, Jonathan P","orcid":"0000-0002-4624-4612","id":"2C6FA9CC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Jonathan P","last_name":"Bollback"},{"full_name":"Guet, Calin C","last_name":"Guet","id":"47F8433E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Calin C","orcid":"0000-0001-6220-2052"},{"last_name":"Tkačik","id":"3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Gašper","orcid":"0000-0002-6699-1455","full_name":"Tkačik, Gašper"}],"ec_funded":1,"file_date_updated":"2022-02-07T07:14:09Z","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2050-084X"]},"year":"2022","article_processing_charge":"No","abstract":[{"text":"Predicting function from sequence is a central problem of biology. Currently, this is possible only locally in a narrow mutational neighborhood around a wildtype sequence rather than globally from any sequence. Using random mutant libraries, we developed a biophysical model that accounts for multiple features of σ70 binding bacterial promoters to predict constitutive gene expression levels from any sequence. We experimentally and theoretically estimated that 10–20% of random sequences lead to expression and ~80% of non-expressing sequences are one mutation away from a functional promoter. The potential for generating expression from random sequences is so pervasive that selection acts against σ70-RNA polymerase binding sites even within inter-genic, promoter-containing regions. This pervasiveness of σ70-binding sites implies that emergence of promoters is not the limiting step in gene regulatory evolution. Ultimately, the inclusion of novel features of promoter function into a mechanistic model enabled not only more accurate predictions of gene expression levels, but also identified that promoters evolve more rapidly than previously thought.","lang":"eng"}],"type":"journal_article","month":"01","isi":1,"article_number":"e64543","project":[{"grant_number":"648440","_id":"2578D616-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","call_identifier":"H2020","name":"Selective Barriers to Horizontal Gene Transfer"}],"date_created":"2022-02-06T23:01:32Z","scopus_import":"1","corr_author":"1","external_id":{"pmid":["35080492"],"isi":["000751104400001"]},"publication":"eLife","day":"26","title":"Predicting bacterial promoter function and evolution from random sequences","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","short":"CC BY (4.0)","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode"},"publication_status":"published"}