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Abstract

Like their prokaryotic counterparts, eukaryotic transcription factors must recognize specific DNA sites, search for them efficiently, and bind to them to help recruit or block the transcription machinery. For eukaryotic factors, however, the genetic signals are extremely complex and scattered over vast, multichromosome genomes, while the DNA interplay occurs in a varying landscape defined by chromatin remodeling events and epigenetic modifications. Eukaryotic factors are rich in intrinsically disordered regions and are also distinct in their recognition of short DNA motifs and utilization of open DNA interaction interfaces as ways to gain access to DNA on nucleosomes. Recent findings are revealing the profound, unforeseen implications of such characteristics for the mechanisms of DNA interplay. In this review we discuss these implications and how they are shaping the eukaryotic transcription control paradigm into one of promiscuous signal recognition, highly dynamic interactions, heterogeneous DNA scanning, and multiprong conformational control.

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2025-01-29
2025-02-07
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