Structure-aided prediction of mammalian transcription factor complexes in conserved non-coding elements

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1632, 2013, Pages

  Guturu, Harendra ^a,c   Doxey, Andrew C ^b,c   Wenger, Aaron M ^a   Bejerano, Gill ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cis regulation; Complexes; Conserved non coding elements; Cooperative binding; Enhancers; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MAMMAL; PROTEIN;

SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIS-REGULATION; COMPLEXES; CONSERVED NON-CODING ELEMENTS; COOPERATIVE BINDING; ENHANCERS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

CIS-REGULATION; COMPLEXES; CONSERVED NON-CODING ELEMENTS; COOPERATIVE BINDING; ENHANCERS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84887434861     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0029     Document Type: Article

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