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    In genetics, a silencer is a DNA sequence capable of binding transcription regulation factors, called repressors. DNA contains genes and provides the template...
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  • Silencer (genetics), a DNA sequence capable of binding transcription regulation factors Silencer (Judge Dredd novel), by David Bishop, 1994 Silencer (poetry...
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    A silencer, also known as a sound suppressor, suppressor, or sound moderator, is a muzzle device that suppresses the blast created when a gun (firearm...
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    splicing silencer (ISS), Exonic splicing enhancer (ESE), and Exonic splicing silencer (ESSE3). Solution structure of Intronic splicing silencer and its...
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    non-coding regulatory sequences of a gene, such as promoters, enhancers, and silencers, can alter levels of gene expression, but are less likely to alter the...
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    expression of one or more genes by binding to the operator or associated silencers. A DNA-binding repressor blocks the attachment of RNA polymerase to the...
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    In genetics, an enhancer is a short (50–1500 bp) region of DNA that can be bound by proteins (activators) to increase the likelihood that transcription...
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  • American neologism for a silencer Flash suppressor, flash guard, device attached to the muzzle of a rifle Suppressor (genetics) Suppressor mutation Suppressor...
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    then helps to recruit the RNA polymerase to the promoter; conversely silencers bind repressor proteins and make the DNA less available for RNA polymerase...
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  • of cell biology, molecular biology, and related disciplines, including genetics, biochemistry, and microbiology. It is split across two articles: This...
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    distant from the transcription start sites. These include enhancers, silencers, insulators and tethering elements. Among this constellation of elements...
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    RE1-Silencing Transcription factor (REST), also known as Neuron-Restrictive Silencer Factor (NRSF), is a protein which in humans is encoded by the REST gene...
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  • biology, molecular biology, and related disciplines, including molecular genetics, biochemistry, and microbiology. It is split across two articles: Glossary...
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    In genetics, a promoter is a sequence of DNA to which proteins bind to initiate transcription of a single RNA transcript from the DNA downstream of the...
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  • In genetics, an operon is a functioning unit of DNA containing a cluster of genes under the control of a single promoter. The genes are transcribed together...
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  • enhancer and silencer sequences that further modify the activity of promoters by binding activator or repressor proteins. Enhancers and silencers may be distantly...
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    directly causing degradation of the transcript. The 3′-UTR also may have silencer regions that bind repressor proteins that inhibit the expression of a mRNA...
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  • including -but not limited to- locus control regions, promoters, enhancers, silencers, boundary control elements and other modulators. Cis-regulatory modules...
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  • Review of Genetics. 47: 275–306. doi:10.1146/annurev-genet-021313-173730. PMID 24016189. McNally FJ, Rine J (November 1991). "A synthetic silencer mediates...
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    Botany (section Genetics)
    expression can also be controlled by repressor proteins that attach to silencer regions of the DNA and prevent that region of the DNA code from being expressed...
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    canonical histone mRNAs: life without a poly(A) tail". Nature Reviews. Genetics. 9 (11): 843–54. doi:10.1038/nrg2438. PMC 2715827. PMID 18927579. Berg...
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  • An exonic splicing silencer (ESS) is a short region (usually 4-18 nucleotides) of an exon and is a cis-regulatory element. A set of 103 hexanucleotides...
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    in the intron itself (intronic splicing silencers, ISS) or in a neighboring exon (exonic splicing silencers, ESS). They vary in sequence, as well as...
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  • while fighting Quietus and Silencer in Khadym. Jonah 9 - a Leviathan underboss and the head of their eugenics and genetics division. Mad Dog - a bounty...
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  • Exonic splicing enhancer (category Genetics)
    (hnRNPs) bind to and block exon splicing in regions with exonic splicing silencers. Both types of proteins are involved in the assembly and proper functioning...
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    be controlled through the action of repressor proteins that attach to silencer regions of the DNA. These epigenetic changes may last through cell divisions...
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  • researching RNA biology and molecular genetics; particularly for the invention of the Intron Splicing Silencer N1 (ISS-N1) target that led to the first...
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  • Selfish genetic element (category Wikipedia articles published in PLOS Genetics)
    how the rapid co-evolution between selfish genetic elements and their silencers can lead to incompatibilities on short evolutionary time scales, as little...
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    protein that binds to origins of DNA replication and a transcriptional silencer". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States...
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    Mating of yeast (category Molecular genetics)
    Weber JM, Ehrenhofer-Murray AE (December 2010). "Design of a minimal silencer for the silent mating-type locus HML of Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Nucleic...
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