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A Handbook of Transcription Factors

  • Soup-to-nuts overview not provided by any other book
  • Objective, high-level, genome-based viewpoint, with subsidiary examples, rather than “paradigm by anecdote”
  • Combines in-depth analysis of molecular biology literature with computational-based large-scale analyses

Part of the book series: Subcellular Biochemistry (SCBI, volume 52)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. An Overview of Prokaryotic Transcription Factors

    • Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee, Karthikeyan Sivaraman, Nicholas M. Luscombe
    Pages 7-23
  3. Function and Evolution of C2H2 Zinc Finger Arrays

    • Lisa Stubbs, Younguk Sun, Derek Caetano-Anolles
    Pages 75-94
  4. Homeodomain Subtypes and Functional Diversity

    • Thomas R. Bürglin
    Pages 95-122
  5. Nuclear Receptors: Small Molecule Sensors that Coordinate Growth, Metabolism and Reproduction

    • Keith Pardee, Aleksandar S. Necakov, Henry Krause
    Pages 123-153
  6. How Transcription Factors Identify Regulatory Sites in Genomic Sequence

    • Yair Field, Eilon Sharon, Eran Segal
    Pages 193-204
  7. Transcription Factor Binding Sites and Other Features in Human and Drosophila Proximal Promoters

    • Charles Vinson, Raghunath Chatterjee, Peter Fitzgerald
    Pages 205-222
  8. Transcription Factor Effector Domains

    • Seth Frietze, Peggy J. Farnham
    Pages 261-277
  9. Large-Scale Nuclear Architecture and Transcriptional Control

    • Juan M. Vaquerizas, Asifa Akhtar, Nicholas M. Luscombe
    Pages 279-295
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 297-306

About this book

Transcription factors are the molecules that the cell uses to interpret the genome: they possess sequence-specific DNA-binding activity, and either directly or indirectly influence the transcription of genes.  In aggregate, transcription factors control gene expression and genome organization, and play a pivotal role in many aspects of physiology and evolution. 

This book provides a reference for major aspects of transcription factor function, encompassing a general catalogue of known transcription factor classes, origins and evolution of specific transcription factor types, methods for studying transcription factor binding sites in vitro, in vivo, and in silico, and mechanisms of interaction with chromatin and RNA polymerase.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Res, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Timothy R. Hughes

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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