Diverse CGG binding proteins across eukaryotes produced by independent domestications of hAT transposons

The human transcription factor (TF) CGGBP1 (“CGG Binding Protein”) is conserved only in amniotes, and is believed to derive from the zf-BED and Hermes transposase DNA-binding domains (DBDs) of a hAT DNA transposon. Here, we examine the DNA binding preferences of a wide variety of metazoan CGGBP1-like TFs with this bipartite domain using PBM experiments. The derived motifs are available at ... Protein binding microarray (PBM) experiments were performed for 106 CGGBP1-like proteins and related hAT transposons. Briefly, the PBMs involved binding GST-tagged DNA-binding proteins to two double-stranded 44K Agilent microarrays, each containing a different DeBruijn sequence design, in order to determine their sequence preferences. Details of the PBM protocol are described in Berger et al., Nature Biotechnology 2006.