Jolma et al., Cell, 2013

In this work, we describe binding specificity models for the majority of all human TFs, approximately doubling the coverage compared to existing systematic studies. Our results also reveal additional specificity determinants for a large number of factors for which a partial specificity was known before, including a commonly observed A- or T-rich stretch flanking core-binding motifs. Global analysis of the data reveals that homodimer orientation and spacing preferences, and base stacking interactions have a larger role in TF-DNA binding than what has been previously appreciated. We further describe a binding model incorporating these features that is required to understand binding of TFs to DNA.

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