Interaction modules that impart specificity to disordered protein

K Cermakova, HC Hodges - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are especially enriched among proteins that regulate
chromatin and transcription. As a result, mechanisms that influence specificity of IDR-driven …

Compendium of human transcription factor effector domains

LF Soto, Z Li, CS Santoso, A Berenson, I Ho, VX Shen… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression by binding to DNA sequences and
modulating transcriptional activity through their effector domains. Despite the central role of …

Large-scale mapping and mutagenesis of human transcriptional effector domains

N DelRosso, J Tycko, P Suzuki, C Andrews, Aradhana… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Human gene expression is regulated by more than 2,000 transcription factors and chromatin
regulators,. Effector domains within these proteins can activate or repress transcription …

An activity-specificity trade-off encoded in human transcription factors

J Naderi, AP Magalhaes, G Kibar, G Stik, Y Zhang… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) control specificity and activity of gene transcription, but whether a
relationship between these two features exists is unclear. Here we provide evidence for an …

[HTML][HTML] Directed mutational scanning reveals a balance between acidic and hydrophobic residues in strong human activation domains

MV Staller, E Ramirez, SR Kotha, AS Holehouse… - Cell systems, 2022 - cell.com
Acidic activation domains are intrinsically disordered regions of the transcription factors that
bind coactivators. The intrinsic disorder and low evolutionary conservation of activation …

Simple biochemical features underlie transcriptional activation domain diversity and dynamic, fuzzy binding to Mediator

AL Sanborn, BT Yeh, JT Feigerle, CV Hao… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene activator proteins comprise distinct DNA-binding and transcriptional activation
domains (ADs). Because few ADs have been described, we tested domains tiling all yeast …

Identification and functional characterization of transcriptional activators in human cells

N Alerasool, H Leng, ZY Lin, AC Gingras, M Taipale - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Transcription is orchestrated by thousands of transcription factors (TFs) and chromatin-
associated proteins, but how these are causally connected to transcriptional activation is …

Identification of plant transcriptional activation domains

N Morffy, L Van den Broeck, C Miller, RJ Emenecker… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Gene expression in Arabidopsis is regulated by more than 1,900 transcription factors (TFs),
which have been identified genome-wide by the presence of well-conserved DNA-binding …

High-throughput discovery and characterization of human transcriptional effectors

J Tycko, N DelRosso, GT Hess, A Banerjee, A Mukund… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Thousands of proteins localize to the nucleus; however, it remains unclear which contain
transcriptional effectors. Here, we develop HT-recruit, a pooled assay where protein libraries …

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in precision medicine: A paradigm shift in big data analysis

M Sahu, R Gupta, RK Ambasta, P Kumar - Progress in molecular biology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The integration of artificial intelligence in precision medicine has revolutionized healthcare
delivery. Precision medicine identifies the phenotype of particular patients with less-common …