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MONKEY: identifying conserved transcription-factor binding sites in multiple alignments using a binding site-specific evolutionary model

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Moses, Alan M, Chiang, Derek Y, Pollard, Daniel A, Iyer, Venky N, Eisen, Michael B·2004·Genome Biology

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We introduce a method (MONKEY) to identify conserved transcription-factor binding sites in multispecies alignments. MONKEY employs probabilistic models of factor specificity and binding-site evolution, on which basis we compute the likelihood that putative sites are conserved and assign statistical significance to each hit. Using genomes from the genus Saccharomyces , we illustrate how the significance of real sites increases with evolutionary distance and explore the relationship between conservation and function.

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  • There is an inverse relationship between the degeneracy of columns within an RNAcompete motif and the evolutionary conservation of the matching bases within the predicted binding site in transcripts.

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Authors
Moses, A. M., Chiang, D. Y., Pollard, D. A., Iyer, V. N., & Eisen, M. B.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
Corresponding author
Eisen, Michael B
Venue
Genome Biology
Published
2004-11-30
Volume
5
Issue
12
Pages
R98-R98
ISSN
  • 1465-6906 (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-760X
OpenAlex
W2109314645
Cited by
153
References
53
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6.29
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Genome biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) (submittedVersion)
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG002779)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
Keywords
transcription factor binding sites, conserved binding sites, binding site evolution, Saccharomyces, phylogenetic distance
MeSH terms
Binding Sites, DNA, DNA-Binding Proteins, DNA, Fungal, Biological Evolution, Gene Expression Regulation, Models, Genetic, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Software, Species Specificity, Transcription Factors, Sequence Alignment, Conserved Sequence, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

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