Limited conservation in cross-species comparison of GLK transcription factor binding suggested wide-spread cistrome divergence

oleh: Xiaoyu Tu, Sibo Ren, Wei Shen, Jianjian Li, Yuxiang Li, Chuanshun Li, Yangmeihui Li, Zhanxiang Zong, Weibo Xie, Donald Grierson, Zhangjun Fei, Jim Giovannoni, Pinghua Li, Silin Zhong

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01

Deskripsi

Unlike microbes and mammals, cistrome dynamics in plants remains unclear. Here, using GOLDEN2-LIKE (GLK) transcription factor as an example, the authors find that most GLK binding sites are species-specific and the binding divergence is caused by cis-variations through inter-species transformation experiment.