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  2. Enhancer (genetics) - Wikipedia

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    In genetics, an enhancer is a short (50–1500 bp) region of DNA that can be bound by proteins to increase the likelihood that transcription of a particular gene will occur. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These proteins are usually referred to as transcription factors .

  3. Super-enhancer - Wikipedia

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    A super-enhancer, illustrated in the lower panel of the Figure, is a region of the mammalian genome comprising multiple typical enhancers that is collectively bound by an array of transcription factor proteins to drive transcription of genes involved in cell identity, [3] [4] [5] or of genes involved in cancer. [6]

  4. Regulatory sequence - Wikipedia

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    An inactive enhancer may be bound by an inactive transcription factor. Phosphorylation of the transcription factor may activate it and that activated transcription factor may then activate the enhancer to which it is bound (see small red star representing phosphorylation of a transcription factor bound to an enhancer in the illustration). [12]

  5. Enhancer RNA - Wikipedia

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    Enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) represent a class of relatively long non-coding RNA molecules (50-2000 nucleotides) transcribed from the DNA sequence of enhancer regions. They were first detected in 2010 through the use of genome-wide techniques such as RNA-seq and ChIP-seq .

  6. 5′ flanking region - Wikipedia

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    Enhancers are DNA sequences found in 5′ flanking regions of eukaryotic genes that affect transcription. If a transcription factor binds to an enhancer in a 5′ flanking region, the DNA strand bends in a way that the transcription factor that is bound to the enhancer can also bind the promoter of a gene.

  7. Enhanceosome - Wikipedia

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    Enhanceosomes are formed in special cases when these activators cooperatively bind together along the enhancer sequence to create a distinct three-dimensional structure. Each enhanceosome is unique towards its specific enhancer. This assembly is facilitated by energetically favorable protein: protein and protein: DNA interactions. Therefore ...

  8. Gene structure - Wikipedia

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    These sequence regions can either be next to the transcribed region (the promoter) or separated by many kilobases (enhancers and silencers). [8] The promoter is located at the 5' end of the gene and is composed of a core promoter sequence and a proximal promoter sequence.

  9. Response element - Wikipedia

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    Response elements are short sequences of DNA within a gene promoter or enhancer region that are able to bind specific transcription factors and regulate transcription of genes. Under conditions of stress, a transcription activator protein binds to the response element and stimulates transcription.