Correlations of substitutions predict specific protein- DNA contacts in the MerR family of transcriptional factors Ilya Zharov, Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences ... University, Moscow, Russia, 119991 , lan787@yko.name Correlations of substitutions between the sequences of transcriptional factors ( TFs ) and their binding sites may be used to predict specific contacts between the protein and DNA residues ...