scholarly journals Analytical Currents: How many antibodies work after QD conjugation? | SERS at Pd and Pt surfaces. | How do constituents in plasma membranes move around? | Fast MS of viruses and cells. | Shifting ideas about protein NMR. | Studying protein–DNA interactions inside porous vesicles. | An NMR structure from micrograms of protein. | Watching a transcription factor in action.

2007 ◽  
Vol 79 (15) ◽  
pp. 5497-5500
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3600-3610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias G. Beuerle ◽  
Neil P. Dufton ◽  
Anna M. Randi ◽  
Ian R. Gould

Molecular dynamics study elucidating the mechanistic background of the DNA-binding process and the sequence specificity of the transcription factor ERG. Along with the biological findings the capabilities of unbiased DNA-binding simulations in combination with various means of analysis in the field of protein DNA-interactions are shown.


Biochemistry ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (30) ◽  
pp. 8917-8928 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miri Bidder ◽  
Arleen P. Loewy ◽  
Tammy Latifi ◽  
Elizabeth P. Newberry ◽  
Glenda Ferguson ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin A.T Rodriguez ◽  
Tim H.-M Huang

Interactions between protein and DNA are essential for cellular function. The incremental process of developing global approaches to study chromatin began with the in vitro characterization of chromatin structural components and modifications of the versatile chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, capable of analyzing protein–DNA interactions in vivo. Among the emerging global approaches are ChIP cloning, ChIP display, differential chromatin scanning, ChIP–chip, DamID chromatin profiling, and chromatin array. These methods have been used to assess transcription-factor binding and (or) histone modification. This review describes these global methods and illustrates their potential in answering biological questions.Key words: ChIP, transcription factor binding, histone modification, ChIP display, differential chromatin scanning, ChIP-chip, DamID chromatin profiling, chromatin array.


2002 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hicham Drissi ◽  
Arlyssa Pouliot ◽  
Janet L. Stein ◽  
Andre J. van Wijnen ◽  
Gary S. Stein ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1829-1839 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. McNabb ◽  
Inés Pinto

ABSTRACT The CCAAT-binding factor (CBF) is an evolutionarily conserved multimeric transcriptional activator in eukaryotes. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the CCAAT-binding factor is composed of four subunits, termed Hap2p, Hap3p, Hap4p, and Hap5p. The Hap2p/Hap3p/Hap5p heterotrimer is the DNA-binding component of the complex that binds to the consensus 5′-CCAAT-3′ sequence in the promoter of target genes. The Hap4p subunit contains the transcriptional activation domain necessary for stimulating transcription after interacting with Hap2p/Hap3p/Hap5p. In this report, we demonstrate that Hap2p, Hap3p, and Hap5p assemble via a one-step pathway requiring all three subunits simultaneously, as opposed to the mammalian CCAAT-binding factor which has been shown to assemble via a two-step pathway with CBF-A (Hap3p homolog) and CBF-C (Hap5p homolog) forming a stable dimer before CBF-B (Hap2p homolog) can interact. We have also found that the interaction of Hap4p with Hap2p/Hap3p/Hap5p requires DNA binding as a prerequisite. To further understand the protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions of this transcription factor, we identified the minimal domain of Hap4p necessary for interaction with the Hap2p/Hap3p/Hap5p-DNA complex, and we demonstrate that this domain is sufficient to complement the respiratory deficiency of a hap4Δ mutant and activate transcription when fused with the VP16 activation domain. These studies provide a further understanding of the assembly of the yeast CCAAT-binding factor at target promoters and raise a number of questions concerning the protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions of this multisubunit transcription factor.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafal Donczew ◽  
Amélia Lalou ◽  
Didier Devys ◽  
Laszlo Tora ◽  
Steven Hahn

AbstractMittal and colleagues have raised questions about mapping transcription factor locations on DNA using the MNase-based ChEC-seq method (Mittal et al., 2021). Partly due to this concern, we modified the experimental conditions of the MNase cleavage step and subsequent computational analyses, resulting in more stringent conditions for mapping protein-DNA interactions (Donczew et al., 2020). The revised method (dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bizgkf3w) answers questions raised by Mittal et al. and, without changing earlier conclusions, identified widespread promoter binding of the transcription coactivators TFIID and SAGA at active genes. The revised method is also suitable for accurately mapping the genome-wide locations of DNA sequence-specific transcription factors.


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