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  2. 5′ flanking region - Wikipedia

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    In eukaryotes, the 5′ flanking region has a complex set of regulatory elements such as enhancers, silencers, and promoters. The primary promoter element in eukaryotes is the TATA box. Other promoter elements found in eukaryotic 5′ flanking regions include initiator elements, downstream core promoter element, CAAT box, and the GC box. [1]

  3. Promoter (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    Promoters are located near the transcription start sites of genes, upstream on the DNA (towards the 5' region of the sense strand). Promoters can be about 100–1000 base pairs long, the sequence of which is highly dependent on the gene and product of transcription, type or class of RNA polymerase recruited to the site, and species of organism ...

  4. Termination signal - Wikipedia

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    Intrinsic terminator containing an RNA hairpin rich in guanine and cytosine as well as a region high in uracil. The two types of termination signals in bacteria are intrinsic and factor-dependent terminators. [4] Intrinsic termination occurs when a specific sequence on the growing RNA strand elicits detachment of RNA polymerase from the RNA-DNA ...

  5. Regulatory sequence - Wikipedia

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    An active enhancer regulatory sequence of DNA is enabled to interact with the promoter DNA regulatory sequence of its target gene by formation of a chromosome loop. This can initiate messenger RNA (mRNA) synthesis by RNA polymerase II (RNAP II) bound to the promoter at the transcription start site of the gene. The loop is stabilized by one ...

  6. Initiator element - Wikipedia

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    The Inr element for core promoters was found to be more prevalent than the TATA box in eukaryotic promoter domains. [11] In a study of 1800+ distinct human promoter sequences it was found that 49% contain the Inr element while 21.8% contain the TATA box. [11] Out of those sequences with the TATA box, 62% contained the Inr element as well.

  7. Directionality (molecular biology) - Wikipedia

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    The 5′-flanking region contains the gene promoter, and may also contain enhancers or other protein binding sites. The 5′- untranslated region (5′-UTR) is a region of a gene which is transcribed into mRNA, and is located at the 5′-end of the mRNA.

  8. Cis-regulatory element - Wikipedia

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    The most efficient way for an organism to regulate gene expression is at the transcriptional level. CREs function to control transcription by acting nearby or within a gene. The most well characterized types of CREs are enhancers and promoters. Both of these sequence elements are structural regions of DNA that serve as transcriptional regulators.

  9. Promoter activity - Wikipedia

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    Promoter activity of the P-RM and P-R promoters vs RNA polymerase concentration in the enterobacteriophage lambda [1]. Promoter activity is a term that encompasses several meanings around the process of gene expression from regulatory sequences —promoters [2] and enhancers. [3]