Integrated microfluidic approach for quantitative high-throughput measurements of transcription factor binding affinities

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Glick, Yair ^a   Orenstein, Yaron ^b   Chen, Dana ^a   Avrahami, Dorit ^a   Zor, Tsaffrir ^b   Shamir, Ron ^b   Gerber, Doron ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; DNA; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN C JUN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; ATF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOPHYSICS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; PROCEDURES;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; BINDING SITES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; KINETICS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1;

EID: 84963795305     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1327     Document Type: Article

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