| Range |
6-10 bp
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| Organism |
Unspecified |
| Reference |
Matthew W. Hahn, Jason E. Stajich, and Gregory A. Wray, The effects of selection against spurious transcription factor binding sites, Mol Biol Evol. 2003 Jun20(6):901-6 pp. 3, Link - link PubMed ID12716998
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| Primary Source |
Fairall, L. and J. W. R. Schwabe 2001. DNA binding by transcription factors. Pp. 65- 84 in J. Locker, eds. Transcription factors. Academic Press, Inc, San Diego. |
| Comments |
Transcription is regulated by transcription factors and other parts of the transcriptional machinery in a complicated cellular environment by interacting directly in a sequence-specific manner with short stretches of DNA surrounding the target gene. These binding sites, often found in a well-defined promoter region upstream of the start of transcription, are typically 6-10 base pairs (bp) long (Fairall and Schwabe 2001) |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
104511 |