Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: muscle differentiation regulatory network; the rules of transcriptional regulation; rapid exprimental determination of DNA-binding protein motifs; polymerase poised and ready to go; bacterial tree accounting for lateral transfer

Summary

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 a covering muscle differentiation regulatory network; the rules of transcriptional regulation; rapid exprimental determination of DNA-binding protein motifs; polymerase poised and ready to go; bacterial tree accounting for lateral transfer.

Muscle differentiation regulatory network

An initial blueprint for myogenic differentiation. Blais A, Tsikitis M, Acosta-Alvear D, Sharan R, Kluger Y, Dynlacht BD. Genes Dev 2005, 19:553-569.

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The rules of transcriptional regulation

Cis -regulatory logic of short-range transcriptional repression in Drosophila melanogaster . Kulkarni MM, Arnosti DN. Mol Cell Biol 2005, 25:3411-3420.

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Rapid exprimental determination of DNA-binding protein motifs

DIP-chip: rapid and accurate determination of DNA-binding specificity. Liu X, Noll DM, Lieb JD, Clarke ND. Genome Res 2005, 15:421-427.

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Polymerase poised and ready to go

Genome-wide analyses reveal RNA polymerase II located upstream of genes poised for rapid response upon S. cerevisiae stationary phase exit. Radonjic M, Andrau JC, Lijnzaad P, Kemmeren P, Kockelkorn TT, van Leenen D, van Berkum NL, Holstege FC. Mol Cell 2005, 18:171-183.

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Bacterial tree accounting for lateral transfer

Evolutionary origins of genomic repertoires in bacteria. Lerat E, Daubin V, Ochman H, Moran NA. PLoS Biol 2005, 3:e130.

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