Understanding transcriptional regulation by integrative analysis of transcription factor binding data

C Cheng, R Alexander, R Min, J Leng, KY Yip… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
Statistical models have been used to quantify the relationship between gene expression and
transcription factor (TF) binding signals. Here we apply the models to the large-scale data …

TFClass: an expandable hierarchical classification of human transcription factors

E Wingender, T Schoeps, J Dönitz - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abstract TFClass (http://tfclass. bioinf. med. uni-goettingen. de/) provides a comprehensive
classification of human transcription factors based on their DNA-binding domains …

Pioneer transcription factors: establishing competence for gene expression

KS Zaret, JS Carroll - Genes & development, 2011 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Transcription factors are adaptor molecules that detect regulatory sequences in the DNA
and target the assembly of protein complexes that control gene expression. Yet much of the …

Similarity regression predicts evolution of transcription factor sequence specificity

SA Lambert, AWH Yang, A Sasse, G Cowley, M Albu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Transcription factor (TF) binding specificities (motifs) are essential for the analysis of gene
regulation. Accurate prediction of TF motifs is critical, because it is infeasible to assay all TFs …

Transcription factor–DNA binding: beyond binding site motifs

S Inukai, KH Kock, ML Bulyk - Current opinion in genetics & development, 2017 - Elsevier
Sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to cis-
regulatory elements in promoter and enhancer DNA. While studies of TF–DNA binding have …

Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data

MB Gerstein, A Kundaje, M Hariharan, SG Landt… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Transcription factors bind in a combinatorial fashion to specify the on-and-off states of
genes; the ensemble of these binding events forms a regulatory network, constituting the …

The gateway to transcription: identifying, characterizing and understanding promoters in the eukaryotic genome

ND Heintzman, B Ren - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2007 - Springer
Eukaryotic transcriptional regulation requires the integration of complex signals by the
transcriptional promoter. Distinct sequence elements, characteristic chromatin modifications …

Mechanisms of transcription factor selectivity

Y Pan, CJ Tsai, B Ma, R Nussinov - Trends in Genetics, 2010 - cell.com
The initiation of transcription is regulated by transcription factors (TFs) binding to DNA
response elements (REs). How do TFs recognize specific binding sites among the many …

DNA-dependent formation of transcription factor pairs alters their binding specificity

A Jolma, Y Yin, KR Nitta, K Dave, A Popov, M Taipale… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Gene expression is regulated by transcription factors (TFs), proteins that recognize short
DNA sequence motifs,,. Such sequences are very common in the human genome, and an …

Massively parallel synthetic promoter assays reveal the in vivo effects of binding site variants

I Mogno, JC Kwasnieski, BA Cohen - Genome research, 2013 - genome.cshlp.org
Gene promoters typically contain multiple transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs), which
may vary in affinity for their cognate transcription factors (TFs). One major challenge in …