A widespread role of the motif environment in transcription factor binding across diverse protein families

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1268-1280

  Dror, Iris ^a,b   Golan, Tamar ^c   Levy, Carmit ^c   Rohs, Remo ^b   Mandel Gutfreund, Yael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BINDING ASSAY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SYSTEMATIC EVOLUTION OF LIGANDS BY EXPONENTIAL ENRICHMENT APTAMER TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84940998400     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.184671.114     Document Type: Article

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