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ArticleCell2009

Profiling the human protein-DNA interactome reveals ERK2 as a transcriptional repressor of interferon signaling.

Shaohui Hu, Zhi Xie, Akishi Onishi, Xueping Yu, Lizhi Jiang, Jimmy Lin, Hee-sool Rho, Crystal Woodard, Hong Wang, Jun-Seop Jeong and 6 more

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Article in Cell, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 230 papers.

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230citing papers in PubMed
11.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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230 citing papers in PubMed, 385 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Shaohui HuDepartment of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Zhi Xie
Akishi Onishi
Xueping Yu
Lizhi Jiang
Jimmy Lin
Hee-sool Rho
Crystal Woodard
Hong Wang
Jun-Seop Jeong
Shunyou Long
Xiaofei He
Herschel Wade
Seth Blackshaw
Jiang Qian
Heng Zhu
Johns Hopkins Medicine · USJohns Hopkins University · USHigh Throughput Biology (United States) · US

Funding

TCP5: ACTIVE SITE LABELING REAGENT FOR ACETYLTRANSFERASESU54RR020839 · NCRR · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BOEKE, JEF D · 2004 to 2011
$27.4M
DNA-Binding Activity of Human Transcription FactorsR01GM076102 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ZHU, HENG · 2006 to 2014
$2.6M
NCRR NIH HHS RR020839NCRR NIH HHS U54 RR020839NIGMS NIH HHS GM076102NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM076102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-DNA interactions (PDIs) mediate a broad range of functions essential for cellular differentiation, function, and survival. However, it is still a daunting task to comprehensively identify and profile sequence-specific PDIs in complex genomes. Here, we have used a combined bioinformatics and protein microarray-based strategy to systematically characterize the human protein-DNA interactome. We identified 17,718 PDIs between 460 DNA motifs predicted to regulate transcription and 4,191 human proteins of various functional classes. Among them, we recovered many known PDIs for transcription factors (TFs). We identified a large number of unanticipated PDIs for known TFs, as well as for previously uncharacterized TFs. We also found that over three hundred unconventional DNA-binding proteins (uDBPs)--which include RNA-binding proteins, mitochondrial proteins, and protein kinases--showed sequence-specific PDIs. One such uDBP, ERK2, acts as a transcriptional repressor for interferon gamma-induced genes, suggesting important biological roles for such proteins.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionDNADNA-Binding ProteinsGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksHumansInterferon-gammaMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1DNADNA-Binding ProteinsInterferon-gammaMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1

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PMID19879846
PMCPMC2774939
OpenAlexW2098513996

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