Principles of dimer-specific gene regulation revealed by a comprehensive characterization of NF-κB family DNA binding

Nature Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-102

  Siggers, Trevor ^a   Chang, Abraham B ^b   Teixeira, Ana ^c   Wong, Daniel ^c   Williams, Kevin J ^b   Ahmed, Bilal ^a,d   Ragoussis, Jiannis ^c   Udalova, Irina A ^e   Smale, Stephen T ^b   Bulyk, Martha L ^a,d  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DNA; DNA BASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; DISSOCIATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; NF-KAPPA B; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 83855162723     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2151     Document Type: Article

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