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CELL REPORTS
Volume 3, Issue 4, Pages 1093-1104Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2013.03.014
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- NIH/NHGRI [R01 HG003985]
- Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
- USC-Technion Visiting Fellows Program
- American Cancer Society [IRG-58-007-51]
- American Heart Association [10POST3650060]
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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 highly similar DNA binding motifs but distinct in vivo targets. Currently, it is not well understood how TFs with seemingly identical DNA motifs achieve unique specificities in vivo. Here, we used custom protein-binding microarrays to analyze TF specificity for putative binding sites in their genomic sequence context. Using yeast TFs Cbf1 and Tye7 as our case studies, we found that binding sites of these bHLH TFs (i.e., E-boxes) are bound differently in vitro and in vivo, depending on their genomic context. Computational analyses suggest that nucleotides outside E-box binding sites contribute to specificity by influencing the three-dimensional structure of DNA binding sites. Thus, the local shape of target sites might play a widespread role in achieving regulatory specificity within TF families.
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