Transcription-factor occupancy at HOT regions quantitatively predicts RNA polymerase recruitment in five human cell lines

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Foley, Joseph W ^a,b   Sidow, Arend ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ChIP seq; Gene regulation; HOT region; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR 1; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR 2; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA BINDING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HIGH OCCUPANCY TARGET REGION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HEPG2 CELL LINE; HUMAN GENOME; K562 CELL LINE; METABOLISM;

INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; HELA CELLS; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84885536234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-720     Document Type: Article

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