Genomic repertoires of DNA-binding transcription factors across the tree of life

V Charoensawan, D Wilson… - Nucleic acids …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) are important to genetic regulation in all
organisms because they recognize and directly bind to regulatory regions on DNA. Here, we …

A catalogue of eukaryotic transcription factor types, their evolutionary origin, and species distribution

MT Weirauch, TR Hughes - A handbook of transcription factors, 2011 - Springer
Transcription factors (TFs) play key roles in the regulation of gene expression by binding in a
sequence-specific manner to genomic DNA. In eukaryotes, DNA binding is achieved by a …

Different gene regulation strategies revealed by analysis of binding motifs

Z Wunderlich, LA Mirny - Trends in genetics, 2009 - cell.com
Coordinated regulation of gene expression relies on transcription factors (TFs) binding to
specific DNA sites. Our large-scale information–theoretical analysis of> 950 TF-binding …

[HTML][HTML] Lineage-specific expansion of DNA-binding transcription factor families

V Charoensawan, D Wilson, SA Teichmann - Trends in Genetics, 2010 - cell.com
DNA-binding domains (DBDs) are essential components of sequence-specific transcription
factors (TFs). We have investigated the distribution of all known DBDs in more than 500 …

footprintDB: a database of transcription factors with annotated cis elements and binding interfaces

A Sebastian, B Contreras-Moreira - Bioinformatics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Traditional and high-throughput techniques for determining transcription factor
(TF) binding specificities are generating large volumes of data of uneven quality, which are …

Abundance, diversity and domain architecture variability in prokaryotic DNA-binding transcription factors

E Perez-Rueda, R Hernandez-Guerrero… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Gene regulation at the transcriptional level is a central process in all organisms, and DNA-
binding transcription factors, known as TFs, play a fundamental role. This class of proteins …

Genome-wide survey of transcription factors in prokaryotes reveals many bacteria-specific families not found in archaea

Y Minezaki, K Homma, K Nishikawa - DNA Research, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Assignment of all transcription factors (TFs) from genome sequence data is not a
straightforward task due to the wide variation in TFs among different species. A DNA binding …

Origin and evolution of eukaryotic transcription factors

A de Mendoza, A Sebé-Pedrós - Current Opinion in Genetics & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Transcription factors (TFs) have a central role in genome regulation directing gene
transcription through binding specific DNA sequences. Eukaryotic genomes encode a large …

Evolution of transcription factor binding through sequence variations and turnover of binding sites

G Krieger, O Lupo, P Wittkopp, N Barkai - Genome Research, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Variations in noncoding regulatory sequences play a central role in evolution. Interpreting
such variations, however, remains difficult even in the context of defined attributes such as …

Decoupling of evolutionary changes in transcription factor binding and gene expression in mammals

ES Wong, D Thybert, BM Schmitt, K Stefflova… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
To understand the evolutionary dynamics between transcription factor (TF) binding and
gene expression in mammals, we compared transcriptional output and the binding …