1. Science In Everyday Life
A comparison between human and mouse showed that transcription factor binding sites are considerably less conserved than protein-coding sequences (69). ... Nonetheless, we found that functional target genes of these two factors were enriched for shared binding events. ... The loss of the majority of binding events can be explained by disruption of the transcription factor's binding motif as a result of changes in the DNA sequence, whereas species-specific gains of binding events are frequently found in novel sequences that cannot be aligned with the other species (10). Not all transcript...
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