Functional diversity for REST (NRSF) is defined by in vivo binding affinity hierarchies at the DNA sequence level

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 994-1005

  Bruce, Alexander W ^a,d   López Contreras, Andrés J ^b   Flicek, Paul ^c   Down, Thomas A ^a,d   Dhami, Pawandeep ^a,e   Dillon, Shane C ^a,f   Koch, Christoph M ^a   Langford, Cordelia F ^a   Dunham, Ian ^a,c   Andrews, Robert M ^a   Vetrie, David ^a,g  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; REST PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; K562 CELLS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANSFECTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 66449114042     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.089086.108     Document Type: Article

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