Investigating transcription factor synergism in humans

Proteins are the core and the engine of every process in cells thus the study of mechanisms that drive the regulation of protein expression, is essential. Transcription factors play a central role in this extremely complex task and they synergically co-operate in order to provide a fine tuning of protein expressions. In the present study, we designed a mathematically well-founded procedure to investigate the mutual positioning of transcription factors binding sites related to a given couple of transcription factors in order to evaluate the possible association between them. We obtained a list of highly related transcription factors couples, whose binding site occurrences significantly group together for a given set of gene promoters, identifying the biological contexts in which the couples are involved in and the processes they should contribute to regulate.