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BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 26, Issue 17, Pages 2071-2075Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq405
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [K25HL098807]
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [HHSN272200700038C]
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [R01GM072855, P50GM076547]
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Motivation: Histone acetylation (HAc) is associated with open chromatin, and HAc has been shown to facilitate transcription factor (TF) binding in mammalian cells. In the innate immune system context, epigenetic studies strongly implicate HAc in the transcriptional response of activated macrophages. We hypothesized that using data from large-scale sequencing of a HAc chromatin immunoprecipitation assay (ChIP-Seq) would improve the performance of computational prediction of binding locations of TFs mediating the response to a signaling event, namely, macrophage activation. Results: We tested this hypothesis using a multi-evidence approach for predicting binding sites. As a training/test dataset, we used ChIP-Seq-derived TF binding site locations for five TFs in activated murine macrophages. Our model combined TF binding site motif scanning with evidence from sequence-based sources and from HAc ChIP-Seq data, using a weighted sum of thresholded scores. We find that using HAc data significantly improves the performance of motif-based TF binding site prediction. Furthermore, we find that within regions of high HAc, local minima of the HAc ChIp-Seq signal are particularly strongly correlated with TF binding locations. Our model, using motif scanning and HAc local minima, improves the sensitivity for TF binding site prediction by similar to 50% over a model based on motif scanning alone, at a false positive rate cutoff of 0.01.
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