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Molecular function of pioneer factors. A pioneer factor (PF) recognizes its binding motif within closed chromatin in chromatin scanning results and opens the chromatin structure in this locus. Subsequently, non-PFs recruited to a similar region bind to that region and induce transcriptional activation of a target gene with the PF.
