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Enhanced Yeast One-hybrid Screens To Identify Transcription Factor Binding To Human DNA Sequences
Published on: February 11, 2019
A catalogue of eukaryotic transcription factor types, their evolutionary origin, and species distribution
Matthew T Weirauch1, T R Hughes
1Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3E1, Canada, matt.weirauch@utoronto.ca.
Abstract:
Transcription factors (TFs) play key roles in the regulation of gene expression by binding in a sequence-specific manner to genomic DNA. In eukaryotes, DNA binding is achieved by a wide range of structural forms and motifs. TFs are typically classified by their DNA-binding domain (DBD) type. In this chapter, we catalogue and survey 91 different TF DBD types in metazoa, plants, fungi, and protists. We briefly discuss well-characterized TF families representing the major DBD superclasses. We also examine the species distributions and inferred evolutionary histories of the various families, and the potential roles played by TF family expansion and dimerization.
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