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ReviewNucleic acids research2010

Genomic repertoires of DNA-binding transcription factors across the tree of life.

Varodom Charoensawan, Derek Wilson, Sarah A Teichmann

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Review in Nucleic acids research, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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82citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

82 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 175 citations in OpenAlex.

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22 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Varodom CharoensawanMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. varodom@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Derek Wilson
Sarah A Teichmann
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105161047
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sequence-specific transcription factors (TFs) are important to genetic regulation in all organisms because they recognize and directly bind to regulatory regions on DNA. Here, we survey and summarize the TF resources available. We outline the organisms for which TF annotation is provided, and discuss the criteria and methods used to annotate TFs by different databases. By using genomic TF repertoires from ∼700 genomes across the tree of life, covering Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota, we review TF abundance with respect to the number of genes, as well as their structural complexity in diverse lineages. While typical eukaryotic TFs are longer than the average eukaryotic proteins, the inverse is true for prokaryotes. Only in eukaryotes does the same family of DNA-binding domain (DBD) occur multiple times within one polypeptide chain. This potentially increases the length and diversity of DNA-recognition sequence by reusing DBDs from the same family. We examined the increase in TF abundance with the number of genes in genomes, using the largest set of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes to date. As pointed out before, prokaryotic TFs increase faster than linearly. We further observe a similar relationship in eukaryotic genomes with a slower increase in TFs.

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AnimalsCatalogs as TopicDatabases, GeneticDNA-Binding ProteinsEukaryotaGene DuplicationGenome, ArchaealGenome, BacterialGenomicsProtein Structure, TertiaryTranscription FactorsDNA-Binding ProteinsTranscription Factors

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PMID20675356
PMCPMC2995046
OpenAlexW2046356894

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