Degenerate Pax2 and Senseless binding motifs improve detection of low-affinity sites required for enhancer specificity.

Cells use thousands of regulatory sequences to recruit transcription factors (TFs) and produce specific transcriptional outcomes. Since TFs bind degenerate DNA sequences, discriminating functional TF binding sites (TFBSs) from background sequences represents a significant challenge. Here, we show th...

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Main Authors: Arya Zandvakili, Ian Campbell, Lisa M Gutzwiller, Matthew T Weirauch, Brian Gebelein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5902045?pdf=render