A systematic model to predict transcriptional regulatory mechanisms based on overrepresentation of transcription factor binding profiles

Table 4.

Top ranking transcription factors predicted in cholesterol biosynthesis genes


Accession

Factor

Consensus

〈R-score 〉

P-value
M00287 NF-Y RRCCAATSRG 3.381 ∼0
M00801 CREB CGTCAN 2.18 0.019
M00413 AREB6 WCACCTGW 2.104 0.0089
M00059 YY1 CCATNTW 1.808 0.0589
M00716 ZF5 GSGCGCGR 1.772 0.2331
MA0089 TCF11-MafG NATGAC 1.754 0.2127
M00322 c-Myc GCCAYGYGS 1.749 0.0665
M00188 AP-1 RGTGACTMA 1.72 0.1044
M00217
USF
CACGTG
1.698
0.1733
  • Experimentally validated transcription regulators of cholesterol biosynthesis genes, such as NF-Y and CREB, were predicted as top ranking transcription factors. Other high scoring TFs predicted with higher P-values are likely to regulate a subset of these cholesterol biosynthesis genes.

This Article

  1. Genome Res. 16: 405-413

Preprint Server