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ArticleNucleic acids research2023

Widespread effects of DNA methylation and intra-motif dependencies revealed by novel transcription factor binding models.

Jan Grau, Florian Schmidt, Marcel H Schulz

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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Jan GrauInstitute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle 06120, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2081-6405
Florian SchmidtGoethe-University Frankfurt, Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9222-6207
Marcel H SchulzGoethe-University Frankfurt, Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1252-3656

Funding

Cardio-Pulmonary Institute 390649896German Centre for Cardiovascular Research 81Z0200101Goethe University
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several studies suggested that transcription factor (TF) binding to DNA may be impaired or enhanced by DNA methylation. We present MeDeMo, a toolbox for TF motif analysis that combines information about DNA methylation with models capturing intra-motif dependencies. In a large-scale study using ChIP-seq data for 335 TFs, we identify novel TFs that show a binding behaviour associated with DNA methylation. Overall, we find that the presence of CpG methylation decreases the likelihood of binding for the majority of methylation-associated TFs. For a considerable subset of TFs, we show that intra-motif dependencies are pivotal for accurately modelling the impact of DNA methylation on TF binding. We illustrate that the novel methylation-aware TF binding models allow to predict differential ChIP-seq peaks and improve the genome-wide analysis of TF binding. Our work indicates that simplistic models that neglect the effect of DNA methylation on DNA binding may lead to systematic underperformance for methylation-associated TFs.

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Chromatin Immunoprecipitation SequencingCpG IslandsDNA MethylationNucleotide MotifsProtein BindingTranscription FactorsBinding SitesDNAHumansSoftwareDNATranscription Factors

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PMCPMC10570048

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