DNA-mediated cooperativity facilitates the co-selection of cryptic enhancer sequences by SOX2 and PAX6 transcription factors

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1513-1528

  Narasimhan, Kamesh ^a,b   Pillay, Shubhadra ^c   Huang, Yong Heng ^d   Jayabal, Sriram ^a,e   Udayasuryan, Barath ^a   Veerapandian, Veeramohan ^d,f   Kolatkar, Prasanna ^g   Cojocaru, Vlad ^h   Pervushin, Konstantin ^c   Jauch, Ralf ^d  

^a GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH   (China)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^g HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX2; DNA; EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PRIMER DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SOX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA STRUCTURE; ENHANCER REGION; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUROEPITHELIUM CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84934875125     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1390     Document Type: Article

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