Position and distance specificity are important determinants of cis-regulatory motifs in addition to evolutionary conservation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3203-3213

  Vardhanabhuti, Saran ^a   Wang, Junwen ^a   Hannenhalli, Sridhar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 34250896139     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm201     Document Type: Article

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