HOCOMOCO in 2024: a rebuild of the curated collection of binding models for human and mouse transcription factors

IE Vorontsov, IA Eliseeva, A Zinkevich… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a major update of the HOCOMOCO collection that provides DNA binding
specificity patterns of 949 human transcription factors and 720 mouse orthologs. To make …

Interpreting cis-regulatory mechanisms from genomic deep neural networks using surrogate models

EE Seitz, DM McCandlish, JB Kinney… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly advanced the ability to predict genome function
from sequence. However, elucidating underlying biological mechanisms from genomic …

Optimizing Nucleic Acid Delivery Systems through Barcode Technology

S Park, M Kim, JW Lee - ACS Synthetic Biology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conventional biological experiments often focus on in vitro assays because of the inherent
limitations when handling multiple variables in vivo, including labor-intensive and time …

Combinatorial optimization of gene expression through recombinase-mediated promoter and terminator shuffling in yeast

C Cautereels, J Smets, P Bircham… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Microbes are increasingly employed as cell factories to produce biomolecules. This often
involves the expression of complex heterologous biosynthesis pathways in host strains …

Transcription factor interactions explain the context-dependent activity of CRX binding sites

KJ Loell, RZ Friedman, CA Myers… - PLoS computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The effects of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) on the activity of a cis-regulatory
element (CRE) depend on the local sequence context. In rod photoreceptors, binding sites …

Advances in computational and experimental approaches for deciphering transcriptional regulatory networks: Understanding the roles of cis‐regulatory elements is …

C Moeckel, I Mouratidis, N Chantzi, Y Uzun… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the influence of cis‐regulatory elements on gene regulation poses numerous
challenges given complexities stemming from variations in transcription factor (TF) binding …

[HTML][HTML] MPRAbase: a massively parallel reporter assay database

J Zhao, FA Baltoumas, MA Konnaris, I Mouratidis, Z Liu… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) represent a set of high-throughput technologies
that measure the functional effects of thousands of sequences/variants on gene regulatory …

Analysis of variance of multiple causal networks

Z Jiang, D Zhang - Advances in Neural Information …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Constructing a directed cyclic graph (DCG) is challenged by both algorithmic difficulty and
computational burden. Comparing multiple DCGs is even more difficult, compounded by the …

The evolutionary novelty of insect defensins: from bacterial killing to toxin neutralization

B Gao, S Zhu - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2024 - Springer
Insect host defense comprises two complementary dimensions, microbial killing-mediated
resistance and microbial toxin neutralization-mediated resilience, both jointly providing …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery and validation of context-dependent synthetic mammalian promoters

AM Zahm, WS Owens, SR Himes, KE Rondem… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cellular transcription enables cells to adapt to various stimuli and maintain homeostasis.
Transcription factors bind to transcription response elements (TREs) in gene promoters …