A regulatory sequence is a segment of a nucleic acid molecule which is capable of increasing or decreasing the expression of specific genes within an...

the insulin transcription start site, called the "insulin regulatory sequence". This sequence is made up of several distinct regions with different biochemical...

strategies have led to a better understanding of the features of regulatory DNA sequences, the prediction, and the design of synthetic enhancers. Building...

non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as regulatory sequences (see non-coding DNA), and often a substantial fraction of junk DNA...

Both of these sequence elements are structural regions of DNA that serve as transcriptional regulators.[citation needed] Cis-regulatory modules are one...

important in its function is a regulatory gene, a constantly expressed gene which codes for repressor proteins. The regulatory gene does not need to be in...

piRNA, ribosomal RNA, and regulatory RNAs). Other functional regions of the non-coding DNA fraction include regulatory sequences that control gene expression;...

"activation domain". Most activators function by binding sequence-specifically to a regulatory DNA site located near a promoter and making protein–protein...

unit; (2) that genes produce both mRNA and noncoding RNAs; and (3) regulatory sequences control gene expression but are not part of the gene itself. However...

functional. This includes the sequence that actually encodes the functional protein or ncRNA, as well as multiple regulatory sequence regions. These regions...

(called enhancers). Regulatory sequences have been known since the late 1960s. The first identification of regulatory sequences in the human genome relied...

protein. The regulatory sequence before (upstream from) the coding sequence is called the five prime untranslated regions (5'UTR); the sequence after (downstream...

regulator, or regulatory gene is a gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes. Regulatory sequences, which encode regulatory genes...

can be controlled by a regulatory sequence found before the open reading frame begins in a strand of DNA. The regulatory sequence will then determine the...

An upstream activating sequence or upstream activation sequence (UAS) is a cis-acting regulatory sequence found in yeast like Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

Specific sequence motifs can function as regulatory sequences controlling biosynthesis, or as signal sequences that direct a molecule to a specific site...

cassette is a distinct component of vector DNA consisting of a gene and regulatory sequence to be expressed by a transfected cell. In each successful transformation...

promoter, which is a regulatory sequence that will determine where and when the transgene is active, an exon, a protein coding sequence (usually derived from...

produced by transcription often contains both exons (coding sequences) and introns (non-coding sequences); splicing removes the introns and links the exons directly...

are not immediately repaired. About 600 regulatory sequences in promoters and about 800 regulatory sequences in enhancers appear to depend on double strand...

cellular processes in real-time. Reporter genes are often fused to regulatory sequences of genes of interest, enabling scientists to analyze promoter activity...

amplitude of an optical signal. Attenuator (genetics), a specific regulatory sequence transcribed into RNA. Impact attenuator, used on highways as a crumple...

binding general transcription factors. Both of these consensus sequences belong to the regulatory promoter. Full gene expression occurs when transcription activator...

reading frames (ORFs), and that important intron structures and regulatory sequences are derived from stop codons. In this introns-first framework, the...

shown to be a SNP in a regulator of the SHH gene, called the ZPA Regulatory Sequence (ZRS). This causes ectopic SHH expression in the anterior of the...

of activators or repressors. In the absence of other regulatory elements, a promoter's sequence-based affinity for RNA polymerases varies, which results...

but distinct elements to bind E-box and tetraplex structures of regulatory sequences of muscle-specific genes". Nucleic Acids Res. 35 (21): 7087–7095...

which has a shorter consensus sequence. The TATA box is considered a non-coding DNA sequence (also known as a cis-regulatory element). It was termed the...

conformation of regulatory proteins in a cell, which enable activating transcription factors to recruit RNA polymerase. Given the short sequences of most promoter...

transcription initiation without a functional TATA box. It has the consensus sequence YYA+1NWYY in humans. Similarly to the TATA box, the Inr element facilitates...