Structure-Function Relationship in DNA Sequence Recognition by Transcription Factors

Transcription factors play essential role in the gene regulation in higher organisms, binding to multiple target sequences and regulating multiple genes in a complex manner. In order to understand the molecular mechanism of target recognition, and to predict target genes for transcription factors at the genome level, it is important to analyze the relationship between the structure and function (specificity) of transcription factors. We have used a knowledge-based approach, utilizing rapidly increasing structural data of protein-DNA complexes, to derive empirical potential functions for the specific interactions between bases and amino acids as well as for DNA conformation, from the statistical analyses on the structural data. Then these statistical potentials are used to quantify the specificity of protein-DNA recognition. The quantification of specificity has enabled us to establish the structure-function analysis of transcription factors, such as the effects of binding cooperativit...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: APBC
• Authors: Akinori Sarai, Samuel Selvaraj, M. Michael Gromiha, Hidetoshi Kono
• Keywords: APBC 2004, APBC 2007, Protein-DNA Recognition, Target Recognition, Transcription Factors