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ArticleBiophysical journal2012

Nonspecific protein-DNA binding is widespread in the yeast genome.

Ariel Afek, David B Lukatsky

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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  11. Control of transcriptional pausing by biased thermal fluctuations on repetitive genomic sequences.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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  14. Protein-DNA binding in high-resolution.Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Ariel AfekDepartment of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel.
David B Lukatsky

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent genome-wide measurements of binding preferences of ~200 transcription regulators in the vicinity of transcription start sites in yeast, have provided a unique insight into the cis-regulatory code of a eukaryotic genome. Here, we show that nonspecific transcription factor (TF)-DNA binding significantly influences binding preferences of the majority of transcription regulators in promoter regions of the yeast genome. We show that promoters of SAGA-dominated and TFIID-dominated genes can be statistically distinguished based on the landscape of nonspecific protein-DNA binding free energy. In particular, we predict that promoters of SAGA-dominated genes possess wider regions of reduced free energy compared to promoters of TFIID-dominated genes. We also show that specific and nonspecific TF-DNA binding are functionally linked and cooperatively influence gene expression in yeast. Our results suggest that nonspecific TF-DNA binding is intrinsically encoded into the yeast genome, and it may play a more important role in transcriptional regulation than previously thought.

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Binding SitesDNA, FungalEntropyFungal ProteinsGenome, FungalPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingSubstrate SpecificityTranscription FactorsDNA, FungalFungal ProteinsTranscription Factors

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PMID22768944
PMCPMC3328700

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