Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Mitotic chromosome binding predicts transcription factor properties in interphase

  • Mahé Raccaud,
  • Elias T. Friman,
  • Andrea B. Alber,
  • Harsha Agarwal,
  • Cédric Deluz,
  • Timo Kuhn,
  • J. Christof M. Gebhardt,
  • David M. Suter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08417-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Mammalian transcription factors (TFs) differ broadly in their DNA binding properties. Here authors quantify mitotic chromosome binding (MCB) of 501 TFs and suggest that MCB can be used as a proxy for non-specific TF-DNA interactions that regulate TF search for specific genomic sites.