Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Systematic identification of protein combinations mediating chromatin looping

  • Kai Zhang,
  • Nan Li,
  • Richard I. Ainsworth,
  • Wei Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12249
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The formation of chromatin loops is mainly mediated by DNA-binding proteins (DBPs) that bind to the interacting sites and form complexes in 3D space. Here, Zhang et al.present an algorithm integrating ChIP-seq and Hi-C data to systematically identify both the 1D- and 3D-cooperation between DBPs.