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 …

Origins of specificity in protein-DNA recognition

R Rohs, X Jin, SM West, R Joshi… - Annual review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Specific interactions between proteins and DNA are fundamental to many biological
processes. In this review, we provide a revised view of protein-DNA interactions that …

Protein–DNA binding: complexities and multi-protein codes

T Siggers, R Gordân - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Binding of proteins to particular DNA sites across the genome is a primary determinant of
specificity in genome maintenance and gene regulation. DNA-binding specificity is encoded …

Detecting evolutionary relationships across existing fold space, using sequence order-independent profile–profile alignments

L Xie, PE Bourne - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Here, a scalable, accurate, reliable, and robust protein functional site comparison algorithm
is presented. The key components of the algorithm consist of a reduced representation of the …

Kernel-based machine learning protocol for predicting DNA-binding proteins

N Bhardwaj, RE Langlois, G Zhao… - Nucleic Acids Research, 2005 - academic.oup.com
DNA-binding proteins (DNA-BPs) play a pivotal role in various intra-and extra-cellular
activities ranging from DNA replication to gene expression control. Attempts have been …

DISPLAR: an accurate method for predicting DNA-binding sites on protein surfaces

H Tjong, HX Zhou - Nucleic Acids Research, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Structural and physical properties of DNA provide important constraints on the binding sites
formed on surfaces of DNA-targeting proteins. Characteristics of such binding sites may form …

Nuance in the double-helix and its role in protein–DNA recognition

R Rohs, SM West, P Liu, B Honig - Current opinion in structural biology, 2009 - Elsevier
It has been known for some time that the double-helix is not a uniform structure but rather
exhibits sequence-specific variations that, combined with base-specific intermolecular …

Biomacromolecular quantitative structure–activity relationship (BioQSAR): a proof-of-concept study on the modeling, prediction and interpretation of protein–protein …

P Zhou, C Wang, F Tian, Y Ren, C Yang… - Journal of computer-aided …, 2013 - Springer
Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR), a regression modeling methodology that
establishes statistical correlation between structure feature and apparent behavior for a …

A unified statistical model to support local sequence order independent similarity searching for ligand-binding sites and its application to genome-based drug …

L Xie, L Xie, PE Bourne - Bioinformatics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Functional relationships between proteins that do not share global structure similarity can be
established by detecting their ligand-binding-site similarity. For a large-scale comparison, it …

Insights into protein–DNA interactions through structure network analysis

R Sathyapriya, MS Vijayabaskar… - PLoS computational …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Protein–DNA interactions are crucial for many cellular processes. Now with the increased
availability of structures of protein–DNA complexes, gaining deeper insights into the nature …