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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2014

Transcription factor binding predicts histone modifications in human cell lines.

Dan Benveniste, Hans-Joachim Sonntag, Guido Sanguinetti, Duncan Sproul

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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76citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dan BenvenisteSchool of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, United Kingdom;
Hans-Joachim SonntagMedical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom; and.
Guido SanguinettiSchool of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, United Kingdom; Synthetic and Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JD, United Kingdom G.Sanguinetti@ed.ac.uk Duncan.Sproul@igmm.ed.ac.uk.
Duncan SproulMedical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, United Kingdom; and G.Sanguinetti@ed.ac.uk Duncan.Sproul@igmm.ed.ac.uk.
University of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Breast Cancer Now 2012NOVSP15Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene expression in higher organisms is thought to be regulated by a complex network of transcription factor binding and chromatin modifications, yet the relative importance of these two factors remains a matter of debate. Here, we show that a computational approach allows surprisingly accurate prediction of histone modifications solely from knowledge of transcription factor binding both at promoters and at potential distal regulatory elements. This accuracy significantly and substantially exceeds what could be achieved by using DNA sequence as an input feature. Remarkably, we show that transcription factor binding enables strikingly accurate predictions across different cell lines. Analysis of the relative importance of specific transcription factors as predictors of specific histone marks recapitulated known interactions between transcription factors and histone modifiers. Our results demonstrate that reported associations between histone marks and gene expression may be indirect effects caused by interactions between transcription factors and histone-modifying complexes.

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Protein Processing, Post-TranslationalBase SequenceCell LineChromatin ImmunoprecipitationGenome, HumanHistonesHumansProtein BindingROC CurveTranscription FactorsHistonesTranscription Factorsepigeneticsgene regulation

Identifiers

PMID25187560
PMCPMC4169916
OpenAlexW1982881824

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