How motif environment influences transcription factor search dynamics: Finding a needle in a haystack

BioEssays

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 605-612

  Dror, Iris ^a,b,c   Rohs, Remo ^b   Mandel Gutfreund, Yael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

facilitated diffusion model; motif environment; motif finding; protein DNA recognition; transcription factor search; transcription factors

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF;

EID: 84976534375     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201600005     Document Type: Article

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