Transcription factor loading: please take my place!

Stratmann, Markus; Schibler, Ueli · Cell · 2011

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Interactions of transcription factors with chromatin are highly dynamic. Now Voss et al. (2011) demonstrate that two transcription factors with identical DNA-binding specificities do not compete for occupancy at a given DNA element, but instead, one factor can even facilitate the binding of another. This assisted loading probably involves chromatin-remodeling machines.