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    Gene expression is the process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product that enables it to produce end products...
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  • example of attenuation used in many introductory genetics textbooks, is ribosome-mediated attenuation of the trp operon. Ribosome-mediated attenuation of the...
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    Trp operon (category Gene expression)
    concentration whereas the attenuation responds to the concentration of charged tRNAtrp. Thus, the trpR repressor decreases gene expression by altering the initiation...
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  • who contributed to the establishment of the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis and discovered attenuation, a riboswitch mechanism in which messenger RNA changes...
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  • Operon (redirect from Operator gene)
    but sometimes more control over the gene expression is needed. To achieve this aspect, some bacterial genes are located near together, but there is a...
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    Homeobox (redirect from Homeobox gene)
    structure that binds DNA to regulate expression of target genes. Homeodomain proteins regulate gene expression and cell differentiation during early...
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    early genes. Early gene products help to replicate the viral DNA. Viral DNA replication, in turn, stimulates the expression of the late genes, encoding...
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    variants are known to exist, FAP and attenuated FAP (originally called hereditary flat adenoma syndrome) are caused by APC gene defects on chromosome 5 while...
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    heavily on proper expression of the SHH gene and subsequent sonic hedgehog protein, earning it the distinction of being an essential gene to development...
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    proglucagon gene expression is promoted upon fasting and hypoglycaemia induction and inhibited by insulin. Conversely, intestinal proglucagon gene expression is...
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    neuropeptide gene expression in brain". Epilepsy Research. Supplement. 4: 225–45. PMID 1815605. Human BDNF genome location and BDNF gene details page...
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    Myostatin (redirect from Mighty mouse gene)
    S, et al. (December 1998). "Organization of the human myostatin gene and expression in healthy men and HIV-infected men with muscle wasting". Proceedings...
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    regulator of liver gluconeogenesis, inducing increased gene expression for gluconeogenesis. PGC-1α is a gene that contains two promoters, and has 4 alternative...
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  • Transcription-translation coupling (category Gene expression)
    Ribosome-mediated attenuation is a gene expression mechanism in which a transcriptional termination signal is regulated by translation. Attenuation occurs at...
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  • (CRISPRa) is a gene regulation technique that utilizes an engineered form of the CRISPR-Cas9 system to enhance the expression of specific genes without altering...
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  • Post-transcriptional regulation (category Gene expression)
    process to regulate gene expression. An example of regulated nuclear transport of mRNA can be observed in HIV. Transcription attenuation is a type of prokaryotic...
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  • Heterologous expression refers to the expression of a gene or part of a gene in a host organism that does not naturally have the gene or gene fragment in...
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    IL-10 production which inhibits CD4 T-cell function. In mice, expression of this gene is induced in the thymus when anti-CD3 antibodies are injected...
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    the synthesis of new proteins, enabling rapid activation of the gene. TNF gene expression is regulated by a proximal promoter region consisting of approximately...
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    these pathways have distinct patterns of expression. Gene expression patterns in the adult mouse show high expression in the substantia nigra pars compacta...
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    MicroRNA (category Gene expression)
    are involved in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. miRNAs base-pair to complementary sequences in messenger RNA (mRNA)...
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    L, et al. (Feb 1985). "Adenosine deaminase: characterization and expression of a gene with a remarkable promoter". The EMBO Journal. 4 (2): 437–43. doi:10...
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  • neurogenesis by activating the expression of a cascade of neuronal genes, but they inhibit the expression of glial genes. Neural bHLH genes have different functions...
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    paradoxical attenuation of cocaine's behavioral effects seen under these conditions, as noted above (Kennedy et al., 2013). GABAA receptor subunit genes are among...
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    spicules), (2) a waxy yellow appearance of the optic disk, and (3) the attenuation of blood vessels in size and arterial/venous ratio as they enter and...
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    The LBH (Limb Bud-Heart) gene is a highly conserved human gene that produces the LBH protein, a transcription co-factor in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway....
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    Cragoe EJ, Limbird LE (October 1990). "Cloning, sequencing, and expression of the gene encoding the porcine alpha 2-adrenergic receptor. Allosteric modulation...
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    P-glycoprotein (redirect from ABCB1 (gene))
    regulation of P-gp; the p38 MAPK pathway negatively regulates the expression of the P-gp gene; and the JNK pathway was reported to be involved in both positive...
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    to interact with the host cell transcription machinery. Then, viral gene expression can occur, without integrating the viral genome into host cell chromosomes...
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    DNA vaccine (category Gene delivery)
    the gene (or complementary DNA) of interest. Intron A may sometimes be included to improve mRNA stability and hence increase protein expression. Plasmids...
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