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ArticleNature communications2023

Hidden modes of DNA binding by human nuclear receptors.

Devesh Bhimsaria, José A Rodríguez-Martínez, Jacqui L Mendez-Johnson, Debostuti Ghoshdastidar, Ashwin Varadarajan, Manju Bansal, Danette L Daniels, Parameswaran Ramanathan, Aseem Z Ansari

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Devesh Bhimsaria *Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, 247667, India. devesh.bhimsaria@bt.iitr.ac.in.ORCID 0000-0001-8413-3801
José A Rodríguez-Martínez *Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, San Juan, PR, 00925, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1191-2887
Jacqui L Mendez-JohnsonPromega Corporation, Madison, WI, 53711, USA.
Debostuti GhoshdastidarMolecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
Ashwin VaradarajanDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA.
Manju BansalMolecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India.
Danette L DanielsPromega Corporation, Madison, WI, 53711, USA.
Parameswaran RamanathanDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA. parmesh.ramanathan@wisc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3457-139X
Aseem Z AnsariDepartment of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA. aseem.ansari@stjude.org.ORCID 0000-0003-1432-4498
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore · INPromega (United States) · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · USIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee · INSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USUniversity of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras · PR

Funding

Synthetic molecules to stimulate the expression of Frataxin to ameliorate Freidreichs AtaxinR01NS108376 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI ASEEM Z ANSARI · 2018 to 2026
$3.6M
Revealing Masked Specificities of Human Nuclear ReceptorsR01GM120625 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI ANSARI, ASEEM Z · 2016 to 2019
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120625NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS108376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human nuclear receptors (NRs) are a superfamily of ligand-responsive transcription factors that have central roles in cellular function. Their malfunction is linked to numerous diseases, and the ability to modulate their activity with synthetic ligands has yielded 16% of all FDA-approved drugs. NRs regulate distinct gene networks, however they often function from genomic sites that lack known binding motifs. Here, to annotate genomic binding sites of known and unexamined NRs more accurately, we use high-throughput SELEX to comprehensively map DNA binding site preferences of all full-length human NRs, in complex with their ligands. Furthermore, to identify non-obvious binding sites buried in DNA-protein interactomes, we develop MinSeq Find, a search algorithm based on the MinTerm concept from electrical engineering and digital systems design. The resulting MinTerm sequence set (MinSeqs) reveal a constellation of binding sites that more effectively annotate NR-binding profiles in cells. MinSeqs also unmask binding sites created or disrupted by 52,106 single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with human diseases. By implicating druggable NRs as hidden drivers of multiple human diseases, our results not only reveal new biological roles of NRs, but they also provide a resource for drug-repurposing and precision medicine.

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Receptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearTranscription FactorsBinding SitesDNAHumansLigandsDNALigandsReceptors, Cytoplasmic and NuclearTranscription Factors

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PMID37443151
PMCPMC10345098
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