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In their original study, Murphy et al.1 listed 514 genes whose expression was affected by DAF-16 activity. For 58 of these genes, canonical DAF-16 binding sites were shown. For the remaining 456 genes, there was no indication that canonical DAF-16 binding sites were present, and we assumed erroneously that these genes lacked a consensus DAF-16 binding site. Based on the new information provided by Kenyon and Murphy, we agree that our estimate of 11% reflected a misunderstanding of their data. We also agree with Kenyon and Murphy that the random occurrence of potential DAF-16 binding in promoters is relatively high (78%, according to their estimate). Thus, the percentage of direct DAF-16 targets included among the list of genes whose expression is affected by DAF-16 cannot be determined solely from microarray and bioinformatic analyses. Indeed, numerous studies, including our own, have shown that not all consensus binding sites for a transcription factor are occupied in vivo and that transcription factors can also bind to nonconsensus sites2,3,4 (reviewed in refs. 5,6). For these reasons, methods based on transcription factor binding, rather than expression, have been developed to identify direct targets of transcription factors (for example, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), ChIP-on-chip and ChIP-PET7). In our study4, we identified putative DAF-16 target genes using ChIP, a direct measure of DAF-16 binding, and examined their involvement in DAF-16–dependent processes using a variety of functional assays.

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    Seung Wook Oh, Arnab Mukhopadhyay, Bharat L Dixit, Tamal Raha & Heidi A Tissenbaum

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Oh, S., Mukhopadhyay, A., Dixit, B. et al. Reply to Enrichment of regulatory motifs upstream of predicted DAF-16 targets. Nat Genet 38, 398 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0406-398

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