title: Transcription factor loading: please take my place!
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology, Sciences III, University of Geneva and National Centre of Competence in Research Frontiers in Genetics, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stratmann
authors.forename: Ueli
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schibler