Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Chromatin information content landscapes inform transcription factor and DNA interactions

  • Ricardo D’Oliveira Albanus,
  • Yasuhiro Kyono,
  • John Hensley,
  • Arushi Varshney,
  • Peter Orchard,
  • Jacob O. Kitzman,
  • Stephen C. J. Parker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21534-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Interaction between transcription factors and chromatin is fundamental for genome organization and regulation. Here, the authors use information theory to measure signatures of organized chromatin resulting from transcription factor-chromatin interactions, termed chromatin information enrichment, and find that variations in the information encoded in chromatin architecture reflects functional biological variation.