Transcriptional enhancers: from properties to genome-wide predictions

D Shlyueva, G Stampfel, A Stark - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Cellular development, morphology and function are governed by precise patterns of gene
expression. These are established by the coordinated action of genomic regulatory …

Transcription factors: from enhancer binding to developmental control

F Spitz, EEM Furlong - Nature reviews genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Developmental progression is driven by specific spatiotemporal domains of gene
expression, which give rise to stereotypically patterned embryos even in the presence of …

Determination and inference of eukaryotic transcription factor sequence specificity

MT Weirauch, A Yang, M Albu, AG Cote… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
Transcription factor (TF) DNA sequence preferences direct their regulatory activity, but are
currently known for only∼ 1% of eukaryotic TFs. Broadly sampling DNA-binding domain …

A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation

D Ray, H Kazan, KB Cook, MT Weirauch… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
RNA-binding proteins are key regulators of gene expression, yet only a small fraction have
been functionally characterized. Here we report a systematic analysis of the RNA motifs …

Homeodomain proteins: an update

TR Bürglin, M Affolter - Chromosoma, 2016 - Springer
Here, we provide an update of our review on homeobox genes that we wrote together with
Walter Gehring in 1994. Since then, comprehensive surveys of homeobox genes have …

Absence of a simple code: how transcription factors read the genome

M Slattery, T Zhou, L Yang, ACD Machado… - Trends in biochemical …, 2014 - cell.com
Transcription factors (TFs) influence cell fate by interpreting the regulatory DNA within a
genome. TFs recognize DNA in a specific manner; the mechanisms underlying this …

Conservation and innovation in the DUX4-family gene network

JL Whiddon, AT Langford, CJ Wong, JW Zhong… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD; MIM 158900, MIM 158901) is caused by
misexpression of the DUX4 transcription factor in skeletal muscle. Animal models of FSHD …

A universal deep-learning model for zinc finger design enables transcription factor reprogramming

DM Ichikawa, O Abdin, N Alerasool, M Kogenaru… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cys2His2 zinc finger (ZF) domains engineered to bind specific target sequences in the
genome provide an effective strategy for programmable regulation of gene expression, with …

[HTML][HTML] DNA-binding specificities of human transcription factors

A Jolma, J Yan, T Whitington, J Toivonen, KR Nitta… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Although the proteins that read the gene regulatory code, transcription factors (TFs), have
been largely identified, it is not well known which sequences TFs can recognize. We have …

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 …