Absence of a simple code: How transcription factors read the genome

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 381-399

  Slattery, Matthew ^a   Zhou, Tianyin ^b   Yang, Lin ^b   Dantas Machado, Ana Carolina ^b   Gordân, Raluca ^c   Rohs, Remo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Cofactor; Cooperativity; DNA binding specificity models; High throughput binding assays; Protein DNA recognition

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; DNA; PROTEIN BINDING;

DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; BIOPHYSICS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; GENOME; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84906935775     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2014.07.002     Document Type: Review

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