BERT-Promoter: An improved sequence-based predictor of DNA promoter using BERT pre-trained model and SHAP feature selection

NQK Le, QT Ho, VN Nguyen, JS Chang - Computational Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
A promoter is a sequence of DNA that initializes the process of transcription and regulates
whenever and wherever genes are expressed in the organism. Because of its importance in …

Critical assessment of computational tools for prokaryotic and eukaryotic promoter prediction

M Zhang, C Jia, F Li, C Li, Y Zhu, T Akutsu… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Promoters are crucial regulatory DNA regions for gene transcriptional activation. Rapid
advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have accelerated the accumulation …

Role of DNA sequence based structural features of promoters in transcription initiation and gene expression

M Bansal, A Kumar, VR Yella - Current opinion in structural biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•We briefly review the status of sequence based promoter methods.•The role of
non-B-DNA motifs in promoters and their effect on transcription is discussed.•The DNA …

DeePromoter: robust promoter predictor using deep learning

M Oubounyt, Z Louadi, H Tayara, KT Chong - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The promoter region is located near the transcription start sites and regulates transcription
initiation of the gene by controlling the binding of RNA polymerase. Thus, promoter region …

Genome-Wide Identification of Transcription Start Sites, Promoters and Transcription Factor Binding Sites in E. coli

A Mendoza-Vargas, L Olvera, M Olvera, R Grande… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Despite almost 40 years of molecular genetics research in Escherichia coli a major fraction
of its Transcription Start Sites (TSSs) are still unknown, limiting therefore our understanding …

Explainability in transformer models for functional genomics

J Clauwaert, G Menschaert… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The effectiveness of deep learning methods can be largely attributed to the automated
extraction of relevant features from raw data. In the field of functional genomics, this …

The transition between transcriptional initiation and elongation in E. coli is highly variable and often rate limiting

NB Reppas, JT Wade, GM Church, K Struhl - Molecular cell, 2006 - cell.com
We perform a genome-wide analysis of the transition between transcriptional initiation and
elongation in Escherichia coli by determining the association of core RNA polymerase …

70ProPred: a predictor for discovering sigma70 promoters based on combining multiple features

W He, C Jia, Y Duan, Q Zou - BMC systems biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Promoter is an important sequence regulation element, which is in charge of
gene transcription initiation. In prokaryotes, σ 70 promoters regulate the transcription of most …

Structural properties of promoters: similarities and differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

A Kanhere, M Bansal - Nucleic acids research, 2005 - academic.oup.com
During the process of transcription, RNA polymerase can exactly locate a promoter
sequence in the complex maze of a genome. Several experimental studies and …

Antibiotic tolerance is associated with a broad and complex transcriptional response in E. coli

HS Deter, T Hossain, NC Butzin - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Antibiotic treatment kills a large portion of a population, while a small, tolerant subpopulation
survives. Tolerant bacteria disrupt antibiotic efficacy and increase the likelihood that a …