Spurious transcription factor binding: Non-functional or genetically redundant?

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 798-806

  Spivakov, Mikhail ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Genetic redundancy; Regulatory variation; Transcription factors; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DNA BINDING; DUPLICATE GENE; ENHANCER REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REDUNDANCY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMLINE MUTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84904052161     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400036     Document Type: Article

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