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ArticleThe EMBO journal2010

Genome-wide analysis of ETS-family DNA-binding in vitro and in vivo.

Gong-Hong Wei, Gwenael Badis, Michael F Berger, Teemu Kivioja, Kimmo Palin, Martin Enge, Martin Bonke, Arttu Jolma, Markku Varjosalo, Andrew R Gehrke and 9 more

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19 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Gong-Hong WeiPublic Health Genomics Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and Genome-Scale Biology Program, Institute of Biomedicine and High Throughput Center, University of Helsinki, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland.
Gwenael Badis
Michael F Berger
Teemu Kivioja
Kimmo Palin
Martin Enge
Martin Bonke
Arttu Jolma
Markku Varjosalo
Andrew R Gehrke
Jian Yan
Shaheynoor Talukder
Mikko Turunen
Mikko Taipale
Hendrik G Stunnenberg
Esko Ukkonen
Timothy R Hughes
Martha L Bulyk
Jussi Taipale
University of Helsinki · FIBrigham and Women's Hospital · USUniversity of Toronto · CAKarolinska Institutet · SENational Institutes of Health · USRadboud University Nijmegen · NL

Funding

Universal, Compact Combinatorial Microarrays for DNA Binding Site DiscoveryR01HG003985 · NHGRI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BULYK, MARTHA L · 2006 to 2017
$4.9M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG003985
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Members of the large ETS family of transcription factors (TFs) have highly similar DNA-binding domains (DBDs)-yet they have diverse functions and activities in physiology and oncogenesis. Some differences in DNA-binding preferences within this family have been described, but they have not been analysed systematically, and their contributions to targeting remain largely uncharacterized. We report here the DNA-binding profiles for all human and mouse ETS factors, which we generated using two different methods: a high-throughput microwell-based TF DNA-binding specificity assay, and protein-binding microarrays (PBMs). Both approaches reveal that the ETS-binding profiles cluster into four distinct classes, and that all ETS factors linked to cancer, ERG, ETV1, ETV4 and FLI1, fall into just one of these classes. We identify amino-acid residues that are critical for the differences in specificity between all the classes, and confirm the specificities in vivo using chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) for a member of each class. The results indicate that even relatively small differences in in vitro binding specificity of a TF contribute to site selectivity in vivo.

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Genome-Wide Association StudyAnimalsBase SequenceBinding SitesCell LineDNAHumansMiceModels, MolecularProtein BindingProto-Oncogene Proteins c-etsSequence Analysis, DNADNAProto-Oncogene Proteins c-ets

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PMID20517297
PMCPMC2905244
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