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  2. Regulation of gene expression - Wikipedia

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    Regulation of gene expression, or gene regulation, [1] includes a wide range of mechanisms that are used by cells to increase or decrease the production of specific gene products (protein or RNA). Sophisticated programs of gene expression are widely observed in biology, for example to trigger developmental pathways, respond to environmental ...

  3. Regulator gene - Wikipedia

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    In the regulation of gene expression, studied in evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), both activators and repressors play important roles. [4] Regulatory genes can also be described as positive or negative regulators, based on the environmental conditions that surround the cell.

  4. Translational regulation - Wikipedia

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    Polymorphism in this particular sequence has both positive and negative effects on the efficiency of base-pairing and subsequent protein expression. [2] Initiation is also regulated by proteins known as initiation factors which provide kinetic assistance to the binding between the initiation codon and tRNA fMet, which supplies the 3'-UAC-5 ...

  5. Operon - Wikipedia

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    Control of an operon is a type of gene regulation that enables organisms to regulate the expression of various genes depending on environmental conditions. Operon regulation can be either negative or positive by induction or repression. [16] Negative control involves the binding of a repressor to the operator to prevent transcription.

  6. Regulatory sequence - Wikipedia

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    Regulation of transcription in mammals. 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 ...

  7. Downregulation and upregulation - Wikipedia

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    This is an example of a locally acting (negative feedback) mechanism. An example of upregulation is the response of liver cells exposed to such xenobiotic molecules as dioxin. In this situation, the cells increase their production of cytochrome P450 enzymes, which in turn increases degradation of these dioxin molecules.

  8. Quorum sensing - Wikipedia

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    Quorum sensing of gram-negative cell Gram-positive ... It hunts and feeds through a density-regulated method of predation that is "the regulation of gene expression ...

  9. Gene regulatory network - Wikipedia

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    Structure of a gene regulatory network Control process of a gene regulatory network. A gene (or genetic) regulatory network (GRN) is a collection of molecular regulators that interact with each other and with other substances in the cell to govern the gene expression levels of mRNA and proteins which, in turn, determine the function of the cell.