bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/812123; this version posted October 21, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Absolute quantification of transcription factors reveals principles of gene regulation in erythropoiesis Mark A. Gillespie1,6, Carmen G. Palii2,3,6, Daniel Sanchez-Taltavull2,3,4,6, Paul Shannon1, William J.R. Longabaugh1, Damien J. Downes5, Karthi Sivaraman2, Jim R. Hughes5, Nathan D. Price1, Theodore J. Perkins2,3,7*, Jeffrey A. Ranish1,7* and Marjorie Brand2,3,7*. 1Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA 2Sprott Center for Stem Cell Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1H8L6, Canada 3Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H8L6, Canada 4Visceral Surgery, Department of BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Murtenstrasse 35, 3013 Bern, Switzerland 5MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK 6These authors contributed equally 7Co-senior authors *Correspondence
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[email protected] 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/812123; this version posted October 21, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Summary Dynamic cellular processes such as differentiation are driven by changes in the abundances of transcription factors (TFs). Yet, despite years of studies we still do not know the protein copy number of TFs in the nucleus.