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- April 4, 2012 at 6:59 pm #16313
mxnick262ParticipantYou have isolated a novel transcription factor. How will you determine the genes regulated by transcription factor in the whole genome?
How will you determine the transcription factor binding sites in the whole genome?
- April 5, 2012 at 2:11 pm #110493JackBeanParticipant
No idea? Really not at all?
- April 17, 2012 at 1:19 am #110648mxnick262Participant
ChIP coupled with ChIP-seq. Please do not mock me. I have obviously looked into it but, am looking for second opinions.
- April 17, 2012 at 6:57 am #110655JackBeanParticipant
Obviously you have done nothing. If you did, you would provide some answers, although they might be wrong or incomplete.
- April 17, 2012 at 1:30 pm #110660mxnick262Participant
Is chromatin immunoprecipitation wrong?
- April 17, 2012 at 1:34 pm #110662JackBeanParticipant
For which part?
- April 17, 2012 at 3:47 pm #110667mxnick262Participant
For how to determine the transcription factor binding sites in the whole genome, I’d use ChIP with ChIP sequencing. I’m more than 100% positive that’s the way my professor expects us to do it since he just talked about Monday.
As for the for the first question, I guess use a DNAse1 Foot-Printing Assay? A classmate of mine mentioned knockout mutations but, it’s not asking what the gene does. So I don’t see how that would be correct.
- April 18, 2012 at 6:32 am #110679JackBeanParticipant
Actually you are wrong and your friend is right. The DNase foot-printing is good to recognize the particular binding place. I.e. answer to question 2. But to recognise, which genes are controled by this TF (without being interested in actual binding site), you need to change it’s expression and see, what changes in transcription of other genes you get 😉
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