Disentangling the many layers of eukaryotic transcriptional regulation

KM Lelli, M Slattery, RS Mann - Annual review of genetics, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes is an extremely complex process. In this
review, we break down several critical steps, emphasizing new data and techniques that …

The soft touch: low-affinity transcription factor binding sites in development and evolution

J Crocker, EPB Noon, DL Stern - Current topics in developmental biology, 2016 - Elsevier
Transcription factor proteins regulate gene expression by binding to specific DNA regions.
Most studies of transcription factor binding sites have focused on the highest affinity sites for …

Low affinity binding site clusters confer hox specificity and regulatory robustness

J Crocker, N Abe, L Rinaldi, AP McGregor, N Frankel… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
In animals, Hox transcription factors define regional identity in distinct anatomical domains.
How Hox genes encode this specificity is a paradox, because different Hox proteins bind …

UniPROBE, update 2015: new tools and content for the online database of protein-binding microarray data on protein–DNA interactions

MA Hume, LA Barrera, SS Gisselbrecht… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Universal PBM Resource for Oligonucleotide Binding Evaluation (UniPROBE)
serves as a convenient source of information on published data generated using universal …

Genomic regions flanking E-box binding sites influence DNA binding specificity of bHLH transcription factors through DNA shape

R Gordân, N Shen, I Dror, T Zhou, J Horton, R Rohs… - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
DNA sequence is a major determinant of the binding specificity of transcription factors (TFs)
for their genomic targets. However, eukaryotic cells often express, at the same time, TFs with …

Evolution of transcription factor function as a mechanism for changing metazoan developmental gene regulatory networks

AM Cheatle Jarvela, VF Hinman - Evodevo, 2015 - Springer
The form that an animal takes during development is directed by gene regulatory networks
(GRNs). Developmental GRNs interpret maternally deposited molecules and externally …

Proteome-wide profiling of activated transcription factors with a concatenated tandem array of transcription factor response elements

C Ding, DW Chan, W Liu, M Liu, D Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Transcription factors (TFs) are families of proteins that bind to specific DNA sequences, or TF
response elements (TFREs), and function as regulators of many cellular processes …

Copper affects the binding of HIF-1α to the critical motifs of its target genes

Z Wu, W Zhang, YJ Kang - Metallomics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Copper (Cu) regulates hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) transcription activity by affecting
the selectivity of HIF-1α binding to the promoters of affected genes. In hypoxia, Cu is …

Specification of the somatic musculature in Drosophila

KC Dobi, VK Schulman… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The somatic muscle system formed during Drosophila embryogenesis is required for larvae
to hatch, feed, and crawl. This system is replaced in the pupa by a new adult muscle set …

Highly parallel assays of tissue-specific enhancers in whole Drosophila embryos

SS Gisselbrecht, LA Barrera, M Porsch, A Aboukhalil… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Transcriptional enhancers are a primary mechanism by which tissue-specific gene
expression is achieved. Despite the importance of these regulatory elements in …