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A transcription factor is a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences (enhancer or promoter), either alone or with other proteins in a complex, to control the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA by promoting (serving as an activator) or blocking (serving as a repressor) the recruitment of RNA polymerase.
In eukaryotes, an important class of transcription factors called general transcription factors (GTFs) are necessary for transcription to occur. [19] [20] [21] Many of these GTFs do not actually bind DNA, but rather are part of the large transcription preinitiation complex that interacts with RNA polymerase directly.
Several cell function specific transcription factor proteins (in 2018 Lambert et al. indicated there were about 1,600 transcription factors in a human cell [41]) generally bind to specific motifs on an enhancer [22] and a small combination of these enhancer-bound transcription factors, when brought close to a promoter by a DNA loop, govern the ...
General transcription factors bind to the promoter. When a transcription factor is activated by a signal (here indicated as phosphorylation shown by a small red star on a transcription factor on the enhancer) the enhancer is activated and can now activate its target promoter. The active enhancer is transcribed on each strand of DNA in opposite ...
This list of manually curated human transcription factors is taken from Lambert, Jolma, Campitelli et al. [1] It was assembled by manual curation. More detailed information is found in the manuscript and the web site accompanying the paper (Human Transcription Factors)
The CAAT box signals the binding site for the RNA transcription factor, and is typically accompanied by a conserved consensus sequence. It is an invariant DNA sequence at about minus 70 base pairs from the origin of transcription in many eukaryotic promoters. Genes that have this element seem to require it for the gene to be transcribed in ...
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229906 Ensembl ENSG00000137947 ENSMUSG00000028271 UniProt Q00403 P62915 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001514 NM_145546 RefSeq (protein) NP_001505 NP_663521 Location (UCSC) Chr 1: 88.85 – 88.89 Mb Chr 3: 142.47 – 142.49 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Transcription factor II B (TFIIB) is a general transcription factor that is involved in the formation of the RNA polymerase II ...