tftargets

Transcription factors (TFs) activate and repress target genes. This R package
provides easy access to query a particular TF and find its targets in humans.
The data has been collected from multiple different databases.

Credit: © KENNETH EWARD/BIOGRAFX/PHOTO RESEARCHERS, INC

Citation

For now, please provide a link to this github repository:

https://github.com/slowkow/tftargets

Usage

You may install this package with devtools:

devtools::install_github("slowkow/tftargets")
library(tftargets)
length(TRED)
# [1] 133

Alternatively, you can download just the RData file:

# Download the file:
# install.packages("RCurl")
library(RCurl)
download.file(
  url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/slowkow/tftargets/master/data/tftargets.rda",
  destfile = "tftargets.rda",
  method = "curl"
)
# Load the file:
load("tftargets.rda")
# View the variables stored in the file:
ls()
[1] "ENCODE"      "ITFP"        "Marbach2016"
[4] "Neph2012"    "TRED"        "TRRUST"

Data

This package contains the following datasets:

Dataset	Structure	Gene Identifier	# TF’s	# TF-gene assocations	Reference
TRED	list	ENTREZ	133	7,066	TRED (2007)
ITFP	list	HGNC Symbol/Alias	1974	67,154	ITFP (2008)
ENCODE	list	ENTREZ	157	20,428	ENCODE (2012)
Neph2012	nested list*	HGNC Symbol/Alias	536	16,484	Neph2012 (2012)
TRRUST	list	HGNC Symbol/Alias	748	8,215	TRRUST (2015)
Marbach2016	list	HGNC Symbol/Alias	643	1,305,782	Marbach2016 (2016)

* Note: The Neph2012 is organized as a nested list where the top-level keys
refer to tissue types (e.g. “fBrain-DS11872”).

See data-raw/make_rdata.R for the script that converts the raw
data into lists of gene sets.

TRED

Citation

Jiang, C., Xuan, Z., Zhao, F. & Zhang, M. Q. TRED: a transcriptional
regulatory element database, new entries and other development. Nucleic
Acids Res. 35, D137–40 (2007).
PubMed

Source

https://cb.utdallas.edu/cgi-bin/TRED/tred.cgi?process=home

Description

Predicted and known human transcription factor targets.

Here we find that TRED claims 59 genes are targeted by STAT3.

# Entrez Gene IDs.
TRED[["STAT3"]]
 [1]      2    332    355    595    596    598    896    943    958   1026   1051
[12]   1401   1588   1962   2194   2209   2353   3082   3162   3320   3326   3479
[23]   3559   3572   3586   3659   3718   3725   3929   4170   4582   4585   4609
[34]   4843   5008   5021   5292   5551   5967   6095   6347   6654   7076   7078
[45]   7097   7124   7200   7422   7432   8651   8996   9021  11336  23514  26229
[56]  27151  55893 117153 201254

Figures

ITFP

Citation

Zheng, G., Tu, K., Yang, Q., Xiong, Y., Wei, C., Xie, L., Zhu, Y. & Li, Y.
ITFP: an integrated platform of mammalian transcription factors.
Bioinformatics 24, 2416–2417 (2008).
PubMed

Source

http://itfp.biosino.org/itfp

Description

Predicted human transcription factor targets.

# Gene symbols used on the ITFP website.
ITFP[["STAT3"]]
 [1] "FIGNL1"   "NCOR1"    "SUV420H1"

Figures

ENCODE

Citation

ENCODE Project Consortium. An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the
human genome. Nature 489, 57–74 (2012).
PubMed

Source

http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeRegTfbsClustered

Description

Putative human transcription factor targets based on ChIP-seq data from
the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project.

# Entrez Gene IDs.
head(ENCODE[["STAT3"]], 100)
  [1]  23  31  35  40  81  90  93  98 100 104 105 111 114 118 119 135 147 150 159
 [20] 160 161 174 178 210 224 238 257 259 267 272 273 286 287 307 313 320 321 323
 [39] 328 333 351 368 369 378 402 408 412 419 421 432 444 463 467 472 473 482 491
 [58] 495 529 534 550 571 577 581 586 593 596 597 598 602 622 627 631 636 637 640
 [77] 651 658 667 669 687 694 695 714 740 752 753 770 773 779 780 781 783 788 800
 [96] 805 811 814 817 821

Figures

Neph2012

Citation

Neph, S., Stergachis, A. B., Reynolds, A., Sandstrom, R., Borenstein, E.
& Stamatoyannopoulos, J. A. Circuitry and dynamics of human transcription
factor regulatory networks. Cell 150, 1274–1286 (2012).
PubMed

Source

http://www.regulatorynetworks.org

Description

Transcription factor targets discovered by DNaseI footprinting and TF
recognition sequences. Targets include only transcription factors and not
other genes.

# Entrez Gene IDs.
Neph2012[["AG10803-DS12374"]][["STAT3"]]
 [1]    466   1386    467    468  22809  22926  11016   1385   9586   1390  10664
[12]   1958   1959   1960   1961   2735   2736   2737 148979   2969   8462   9314
[23]   4149   4150   4609   4800   4801   4802   2494   5076   5080   5453   5454
[34]   6667   6668   6670   6671   6774   7020   7021   7022  29842   7490   7494
[45]  51043   7707  10127

Raw Data

zcat data-raw/Neph2012/human_2013-09-16/AG10803-DS12374/genes.regulate.genes.bz2 | head
AHR     BHLHE41
AHR     CNOT3
AHR     CREB1
AHR     CREB5
AHR     CTCF
AHR     EGR1
AHR     EGR2
AHR     EGR3
AHR     EGR4
AHR     EPAS1

Figures

TRRUST

Citation

Han, H., Shim, H., Shin, D., Shim, J. E., Ko, Y., Shin, J., Kim, H., Cho,
A., Kim, E., Lee, T., Kim, H., Kim, K., Yang, S., Bae, D., Yun, A., Kim, S.,
Kim, C. Y., Cho, H. J., Kang, B., Shin, S. & Lee, I. TRRUST: a reference
database of human transcriptional regulatory interactions. Sci. Rep. 5,
11432 (2015).
PubMed

Source

http://www.grnpedia.org/trrust

Description

TRRUST is a manually curated database of human transcriptional regulatory
network.

Current version of TRRUST contains 8,015 transcriptional regulatory
relationships between 748 human transcription factors (TFs) and 1,975 non-TF
genes, derived from 6,175 pubmed articles, which describe small-scale
experimental studies of transcriptional regulations. To efficiently search
for regulatory relationships from over 20 million pubmed articles, we used
sentence-based text mining approach.

TRRUST database also provide information of mode of regulation (activation
or repression). Currently 4,861 (60.6%) regulatory relationships are known
for mode of regulation.

head(TRRUST[["STAT3"]], 100)
  [1] "A2M"      "AKAP12"   "AKT1"     "BCL2"     "BCL2"     "BCL2L1"   "BCL2L1"   "BCL6"     "BIRC5"    "BST2"     "CCL11"    "CCL20"   
 [13] "CCND1"    "CCND1"    "CCND2"    "CCND3"    "CD46"     "CDH1"     "CDK4"     "CDKN1A"   "CDKN1B"   "CFB"      "CFLAR"    "CHI3L1"  
 [25] "CISH"     "COPS5"    "CRP"      "CSRP1"    "CTGF"     "CXCL8"    "CYP19A1"  "CYR61"    "DDIT3"    "DNMT1"    "EGFR"     "ESR2"    
 [37] "ETV6"     "F2R"      "FAAH"     "FAS"      "FAS"      "FGF1"     "FGF2"     "FGG"      "FGL1"     "FLT3"     "FOS"      "GAST"    
 [49] "GFAP"     "HAMP"     "HGF"      "HIF1A"    "HMOX1"    "HP"       "HSPA4"    "HSPB1"    "ICAM1"    "IFNAR1"   "IFNG"     "IKBKE"   
 [61] "IL10"     "IL11"     "IL1RN"    "IL2"      "IL21"     "IL2RA"    "IL6"      "IL6"      "IRF1"     "JAK2"     "JAK3"     "JUNB"    
 [73] "KLF11"    "KRT17"    "LCAT"     "LEP"      "LGALS3BP" "LTBP1"    "MCL1"     "MCL1"     "MDC1"     "MICA"     "MMP1"     "MMP14"   
 [85] "MMP2"     "MMP2"     "MMP3"     "MMP7"     "MMP7"     "MMP9"     "MMP9"     "MUC1"     "MUC4"     "MYC"      "MYC"      "NANOG"   
 [97] "NDUFA13"  "NME1"     "NOSTRIN"  "NOX5"

Raw Data

zcat data-raw/TRRUST/trrust_rawdata.txt.gz | head | column -t
AATF  BAK1    Unknown     22983126
AATF  BAX     Repression  22909821
AATF  BBC3    Unknown     22983126
AATF  CDKN1A  Unknown     17157788
AATF  MYC     Activation  20549547
AATF  TP53    Unknown     17157788
ABL1  BAX     Activation  11753601
ABL1  BCL2    Repression  11753601
ABL1  BCL6    Repression  15509806
ABL1  CCND2   Activation  15509806

Figures

Marbach2016

Citation

Marbach, D., Lamparter, D., Quon, G., Kellis, M., Kutalik, Z. & Bergmann, S.
Tissue-specific regulatory circuits reveal variable modular perturbations
across complex diseases. Nat. Methods 13, 366–370 (2016).
PubMed

Source

http://regulatorycircuits.org

Description

We developed a comprehensive resource of close to 400 cell type- and
tissue-specific gene regulatory networks for human. Our study shows that
disease-associated genetic variants often perturb regulatory modules in cell
types or tissues that are highly specific to that disease.

head(Marbach2016[["STAT3"]], 100)
  [1] "SURF1"    "ZNF230"   "EIF5"     "ATG4C"    "LYSMD4"   "ZWILCH"   "TFB1M"    "SLC12A7"  "DNAL1"    "PPP1R8"   "SEPT9"    "SDCCAG8" 
 [13] "CMTR1"    "GSAP"     "PPIA"     "CLCN6"    "ZFP69"    "ZFP64"    "RNPC3"    "BRPF1"    "ZKSCAN5"  "ZNF410"   "ASF1B"    "PES1"    
 [25] "TMEM41B"  "F2RL1"    "DARS"     "ZNF24"    "RPL4"     "SYF2"     "AGTPBP1"  "NANOS1"   "ZNF140"   "SEC14L1"  "CHAC1"    "CDC42SE2"
 [37] "LIPG"     "PROS1"    "MIIP"     "DENND1A"  "ADAMTSL2" "TBC1D22B" "PHACTR4"  "TNFAIP2"  "SLC35C1"  "ZNF284"   "NCCRP1"   "ZFYVE16" 
 [49] "TBL1XR1"  "UNC45A"   "TIMM50"   "PRRT1"    "RNF215"   "PAF1"     "SPINT1"   "RABL2B"   "DMWD"     "RIN3"     "PAK2"     "NOTCH4"  
 [61] "INPP5F"   "PSMA8"    "MX2"      "TBC1D7"   "CCDC135"  "ATP2B4"   "HLA-DQA2" "IPO8"     "EID2B"    "OGDH"     "ZFYVE21"  "DDB1"    
 [73] "SEC31A"   "SURF6"    "EXD2"     "KIF3A"    "RPUSD3"   "SYMPK"    "ASB13"    "CASC5"    "RLF"      "LIN54"    "TNXB"     "TRABD"   
 [85] "PHTF2"    "COPS4"    "FAM32A"   "PDLIM4"   "CPSF7"    "ZNF720"   "RBFOX2"   "COA4"     "ATP10A"   "MTMR1"    "TNRC6C"   "TMED4"   
 [97] "BUD31"    "GADD45B"  "MTMR3"    "CDC42EP4"

Raw Data

Columns:

Transcription factor.
Target gene.
Edge weight.

zcat data-raw/regulatorycircuits/FANTOM5_individual_networks/394_individual_networks/synoviocyte.txt.gz | head
RAX    PPP2R2A  1.79016453E-3
MYCN   RHOA     1.81311653E-2
TFAP2  RRM1     7.13096624E-3
PRDM4  KPNA2    1.61069158E-2
FOXB1  SCARF2   1.78696733E-3
ATF4   NDUFA11  1.53625527E-3
SPIC   C9orf69  8.60099271E-4
FLI1   CENPU    6.72504942E-3
HNF4A  LHFPL2   1.47391413E-2
STAT3  SURF1    3.14614561E-3