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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 55, 期 -, 页码 26-33出版社
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2020.01.019
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- Science Foundation Ireland [13/IA/1875]
- EU Cooperation in Science and Technology action [CA17139]
- BBSRC [BB/H006125/1, BB/J004561/1]
- BBSRC [BBS/E/J/000PR9791, BB/H006125/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [13/IA/1875] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Proteins that regulate transcription often also play an architectural role in the genome. Thus, it has been difficult to define with precision the distinctions between transcription factors and nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs). Anachronistic descriptions of NAPs as 'histone-like' implied an organizational function in a bacterial chromatin-like complex. Definitions based on protein abundance, regulatory mechanisms, target gene number, or the features of their DNA-binding sites are insufficient as marks of distinction, and trying to distinguish transcription factors and NAPs based on their ranking within regulatory hierarchies or positions in gene-control networks is also unsatisfactory. The terms 'transcription factor' and 'NAP' are ad hoc operational definitions with each protein lying along a spectrum of structural and functional features extending from highly specific actors with few gene targets to those with a pervasive influence on the transcriptome. The Streptomyces BldC protein is used to illustrate these issues.
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