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High Sensitivity Measurement of Transcription Factor-DNA Binding Affinities by Competitive Titration Using Fluorescence Microscopy
Published on: February 7, 2019
Systematic DNA-binding domain classification of transcription factors
Philip Stegmaier1, Alexander E Kel, Edgar Wingender
1BIOBASE GmbH, Halchtersche Str. 33, D-38304 Wolfenbüttel, Germany. pst@biobase.de
Abstract:
Based on the manual annotation of transcription factors stored in the TRANSFAC database, we developed a library of hidden Markov models (HMM) to represent their DNA-binding domains and used it for a comprehensive classification. The models constructed were applied on the UniProt/Swiss-Prot database, leading to a systematic classification of further DNA-binding protein entries. The HMM library obtained can be used to classify any newly discovered transcription factor according to its DNA-binding domain and, thus, to generate hypotheses about its DNA-binding specificity.
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