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Explicit DNase sequence bias modeling enables high-resolution transcription factor footprint detection

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Item Type:Article
Title:Explicit DNase sequence bias modeling enables high-resolution transcription factor footprint detection
Creators Name:Yardımcı, G.G. and Frank, C.L. and Crawford, G.E. and Ohler, U.
Abstract:DNaseI footprinting is an established assay for identifying transcription factor (TF)-DNA interactions with single base pair resolution. High-throughput DNase-seq assays have recently been used to detect in vivo DNase footprints across the genome. Multiple computational approaches have been developed to identify DNase-seq footprints as predictors of TF binding. However, recent studies have pointed to a substantial cleavage bias of DNase and its negative impact on predictive performance of footprinting. To assess the potential for using DNase-seq to identify individual binding sites, we performed DNase-seq on deproteinized genomic DNA and determined sequence cleavage bias. This allowed us to build bias corrected and TF-specific footprint models. The predictive performance of these models demonstrated that predicted footprints corresponded to high-confidence TF-DNA interactions. DNase-seq footprints were absent under a fraction of ChIP-seq peaks, which we show to be indicative of weaker binding, indirect TF-DNA interactions or possible ChIP artifacts. The modeling approach was also able to detect variation in the consensus motifs that TFs bind to. Finally, cell type specific footprints were detected within DNase hypersensitive sites that are present in multiple cell types, further supporting that footprints can identify changes in TF binding that are not detectable using other strategies.
Keywords:Binding Sites, Chromatin, Chromatin Immunoprecipitation, DNA Footprinting, DNA Sequence Analysis, Deoxyribonuclease I, Genetic Models, Nucleotide Motifs, Transcription Factors
Source:Nucleic Acids Research
ISSN:0305-1048
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Volume:42
Number:19
Page Range:11865-11878
Date:29 October 2014
Official Publication:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku810
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