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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 118, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2026754118
Keywords
ChIP-seq; transcription factor; binding site; promoter; position weight matrix
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- Academia Sinica [AS-SUMMIT-109]
- Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan [MOST 107-2311-B-001-016-MY3]
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By developing a computational pipeline for analyzing ChIP-seq data, this study discovered and characterized a large number of previously unknown TFBSs, providing insights into the biological and genomic features of TFBSs.
Transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) are essential for gene regulation, but the number of known TFBSs remains limited. We aimed to discover and characterize unknown TFBSs by developing a computational pipeline for analyzing ChIP-seq (chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing) data. Applying it to the latest ENCODE ChIP-seq data for human and mouse, we found that using the irreproducible discovery rate as a quality-control criterion resulted in many experiments being unnecessarily discarded. By contrast, the number of motif occurrences in ChIP-seq peak regions provides a highly effective criterion, which is reliable even if supported by only one experimental replicate. In total, we obtained 2,058 motifs from 1,089 experiments for 354 human TFs and 163 motifs from 101 experiments for 34 mouse TFs. Among these motifs, 487 have not previously been reported. Mapping the canonical motifs to the human genome reveals a high TFBS density +/- 2 kb around transcription start sites (TSSs) with a peak at -50 bp. On average, a promoter contains 5.7 TFBSs. However, 70% of TFBSs are in introns (41%) and intergenic regions (29%), whereas only 12% are in promoters (-1 kb to +100 bp from TSSs). Notably, some TFs (e.g., CTCF, JUN, JUNB, and NFE2) have motifs enriched in intergenic regions, including enhancers. We inferred 142 cobinding TF pairs and 186 (including 115 completely) tethered binding TF pairs, indicating frequent interactions between TFs and a higher frequency of tethered binding than cobinding. This study provides a large number of previously undocumented motifs and insights into the biological and genomic features of TFBSs.
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