Nucleosome breathing facilitates cooperative binding of pluripotency factors Sox2 and Oct4 to DNA

A Mondal, SK Mishra, A Bhattacherjee - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
… origin stems from an allosteric mechanism without any conformational change in DNA and is
… heterogeneity of fully wrapped and partially unwrapped structures with varying unwrapped …

Structural Plasticity of Pioneer Factor Sox2 and DNA Bendability Modulate Nucleosome Engagement and Sox2-Oct4 Synergism

EN Nikolova, FC Malaga Gadea - Available at SSRN 4207965 - papers.ssrn.com
… While Sox2 adopts a DNA-bound like conformation at a strong nucleosome complex near
… To further gain insight into the synergistic binding of Sox2 and Oct4 on nucleosomes, we …

In silico identification of natural product inhibitors against Octamer-binding transcription factor 4 (Oct4) to impede the mechanism of glioma stem cells

C Nayak, SK Singh - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… as initial structures for computing 50ns MD simulation. The … maintained the structural
conformation with an approximate … analysis were executed to obtain insight into the protein …

Dynamics of Oct4 and Sox2 on the Nucleosome

MM Valdimarsson - skemman.is
DNA binding by Sox2, both partners change conformation to … 90’s and the following wave
of computational analysis of proteins … (A) Structure of Sox2/Oct4 bound to the NCP at the DNA