The architecture of binding cooperativity between densely bound transcription factors

O Lupo, DK Kumar, R Livne, M Chappleboim, I Levy… - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
The binding of transcription factors (TFs) along genomes is restricted to a subset of sites
containing their preferred motifs. TF-binding specificity is often attributed to the co-binding of …

Mechanistic insights into transcription factor cooperativity and its impact on protein-phenotype interactions

IL Ibarra, NM Hollmann, B Klaus, S Augsten… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent high-throughput transcription factor (TF) binding assays revealed that TF
cooperativity is a widespread phenomenon. However, a global mechanistic and functional …

Competition for DNA binding between paralogous transcription factors determines their genomic occupancy and regulatory functions

Y Zhang, TD Ho, NE Buchler, R Gordân - Genome Research, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Most eukaryotic transcription factors (TFs) are part of large protein families, with members of
the same family (ie, paralogous TFs) recognizing similar DNA-binding motifs but performing …

Low-affinity binding sites and the transcription factor specificity paradox in eukaryotes

JF Kribelbauer, C Rastogi… - Annual review of cell …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Eukaryotic transcription factors (TFs) from the same structural family tend to bind similar DNA
sequences, despite the ability of these TFs to execute distinct functions in vivo. The cell …

Unraveling determinants of transcription factor binding outside the core binding site

M Levo, E Zalckvar, E Sharon, ACD Machado… - Genome …, 2015 - genome.cshlp.org
Binding of transcription factors (TFs) to regulatory sequences is a pivotal step in the control
of gene expression. Despite many advances in the characterization of sequence motifs …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Structural perspective of cooperative transcription factor binding

E Morgunova, J Taipale - Current opinion in structural biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Transcription factors can cooperate with each other via multiple mechanisms that
have different specificities and ranges.•Cooperativity can result from direct protein–protein …

Complementary strategies for directing in vivo transcription factor binding through DNA binding domains and intrinsically disordered regions

DK Kumar, F Jonas, T Jana, S Brodsky, M Carmi… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
DNA binding domains (DBDs) of transcription factors (TFs) recognize DNA sequence motifs
that are highly abundant in genomes. Within cells, TFs bind a subset of motif-containing sites …

Paired yeast one-hybrid assays to detect DNA-binding cooperativity and antagonism across transcription factors

A Berenson, R Lane, LF Soto-Ugaldi, M Patel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cooperativity and antagonism between transcription factors (TFs) can drastically modify their
binding to regulatory DNA elements. While mapping these relationships between TFs is …

Functional redundancy of transcription factors explains why most binding targets of a transcription factor are not affected when the transcription factor is knocked out

WS Wu, FJ Lai - BMC systems biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Biologists are puzzled by the extremely low percentage (3%) of the binding
targets of a yeast transcription factor (TF) affected when the TF is knocked out, a …