Using synthetic bacterial enhancers to reveal a looping-based mechanism for quenching-like repression
Some repressors down-regulate gene expression when they bind to a site up to 100 base pairs away from the nearest activator. Here, the authors show that this quenching-like repression can be achieved by the excluded volume effect when a DNA-bound protein alters the propensity of DNA to form a loop.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10407 |