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ArticleMolecular cell2018

Systematic Study of Nucleosome-Displacing Factors in Budding Yeast.

Chao Yan, Hengye Chen, Lu Bai

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Article in Molecular cell, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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72citing papers in PubMed
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chao YanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Hengye ChenDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Lu BaiDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Electronic address: lub15@psu.edu.
Pennsylvania State University · US

Funding

Mechanistic study of pioneer factorsR01GM121858 · NIGMS · PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE · PI BAI, LU · 2017 to 2020
$1.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM121858
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleosomes present a barrier for the binding of most transcription factors (TFs). However, special TFs known as nucleosome-displacing factors (NDFs) can access embedded sites and cause the depletion of the local nucleosomes as well as repositioning of the neighboring nucleosomes. Here, we developed a novel high-throughput method in yeast to identify NDFs among 104 TFs and systematically characterized the impact of orientation, affinity, location, and copy number of their binding motifs on the nucleosome occupancy. Using this assay, we identified 29 NDF motifs and divided the nuclear TFs into three groups with strong, weak, and no nucleosome-displacing activities. Further studies revealed that tight DNA binding is the key property that underlies NDF activity, and the NDFs may partially rely on the DNA replication to compete with nucleosome. Overall, our study presents a framework to functionally characterize NDFs and elucidate the mechanism of nucleosome invasion.

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ChromatinDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, FungalDNA ReplicationHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHistonesHumansModels, MolecularNucleosomesPromoter Regions, GeneticProtein BindingProtein MultimerizationSaccharomycetalesTranscription FactorsChromatinDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, FungalHistonesNucleosomesTranscription FactorsAbf1chromatin openingnucleosomeoligo biologypioneer factorReb1synthetic biologytranscription factor

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PMID30017582
PMCPMC6086576
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