transcription factor
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftranscriptionandfactor
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transcription
noun
uk/trænˈskrɪp.ʃən/us/trænˈskrɪp.ʃən/
a written record of words ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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(Definition oftranscriptionandfactorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In macrophages, cytokine-inducedtranscriptionfactorbinding might enhance virus replication under unconstrained pro-inflammatory conditions.
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Factors influencing the identification oftranscriptionfactorbinding sites by cross-species comparison.
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Remodeling the chromatin structure of a nucleosome array bytranscriptionfactor-targeted trans-displacement of histones.
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Characterizingtranscriptionfactorbinding sites using formaldehyde crosslinking and immunoprecipitation.
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It codes for atranscriptionfactorthat controls the expression of other genes.
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Oxidative stress regulates the expression of activity oftranscriptionfactoractivator protein-1 in rat conceptus.
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We have identified a number of candidate transcripts, including a putative homeoboxtranscriptionfactor.
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Transcription of the gene encoding octamer-bindingtranscriptionfactor4 was higher in blastocysts obtained from in vivo fertilization than in those from in vivo blastocysts.
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This will allow a direct test of how the variant allele's protein product functions as atranscriptionfactor.
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Genomic approaches that aid in the identification oftranscriptionfactortarget genes.
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Here, we explore the function of a noveltranscriptionfactorof the spalt family that might be involved in early cell-lineage decisions of the avian neural crest.
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Very little information exists about the overlap in binding sites for the sametranscriptionfactorin different cells types or in cells from different organs.
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I could not help feeling that a better strategy might not have been to focus more on the principles and less on the multiple members of eachtranscriptionfactorfamily.
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For example, a homeobox gene expressed in soybean embryos induced to form from tissue culture cells is suggested to play an important part as atranscriptionfactorduring embryoid development.
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We are now focusing our efforts on identifyingtranscriptionfactorbinding sites on opsin gene promoters that are responsible for differential patterns of expression.
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Detection of transcriptional regulatory motifs in the upstream region of genes has presented a real challenge becausetranscriptionfactorbinding regions tend to be short, discontinuous, and quite variable.
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