Rigorous and thorough bioinformatic analyses of olfactory receptor promoters confirm enrichment of O/E and homeodomain binding sites but reveal no new common motifs

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Young, Janet M ^a   Luche, Ralf M ^a   Trask, Barbara J ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Olfactory receptor; Position weight matrix; homeodomain; Transcription factor binding site; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MOUSE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TATA BOX;

MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 81055124162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-561     Document Type: Article

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