transcriptional activation

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activation
noun[U]
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/ˌæk.tɪˈveɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæk.təˈveɪ.ʃən/
the act of making something start or making it ...
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The mechanisms whereby tissue-specifictranscriptionalactivationis achieved in the intestine will be discussed.
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There is a direct correlation between thetranscriptionalactivationof embryonic genes and an increase in cell cycle length.
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Responses range from metabolic modulation to neuronal activity totranscriptionalactivation.
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Opsin expression in the rat retina is developmentally regulated bytranscriptionalactivation.
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Tax modulates cellular processes by protein-protein interaction (binding with proteins),transcriptionalactivation(promoting the production of proteins) and transcriptional repression (inhibiting the production of proteins).
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Gene silencing can also be reinforced through the recruitment of histone deacetylases to decreasetranscriptionalactivation.
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Doxycycline is also used in tet-on and tet-off tetracycline-controlledtranscriptionalactivationto regulate transgene expression in organisms and cell cultures.
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On ligand binding, the corepressors dissociate from the receptors and associate with the coactivators leading totranscriptionalactivation.
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Conversely, histone acetylation inducestranscriptionalactivationto increase gene expression.
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Acetylation has been closely associated with increases intranscriptionalactivationwhile deacetylation has been linked with transcriptional deactivation.
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The protein kinases that are known to target thistranscriptionalactivationdomain of p53 can be roughly divided into two groups.
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Similarities to environmental shock response indicates that a general global stress response pathway exist at the level oftranscriptionalactivation.
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Successful exposure therapy is associated with increased acetylation of these two genes, leading totranscriptionalactivationof these genes, which appears to increase neural plasticity.
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Ultimately,transcriptionalactivationof certain target genes occurs.
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In genetic engineering, tetracycline is used intranscriptionalactivation.
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In general, histone acetylation is linked totranscriptionalactivationand associated with euchromatin.
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It may be that acetylation acts in this and the previous way to aid intranscriptionalactivation.
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The protein has been shown to interact with retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors, inhibiting their ligand-dependenttranscriptionalactivation.
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Small loops might package genes near the anchoring center in a tight sub-compartment, which could increase the local concentration of regulatory proteins for enhancedtranscriptionalactivation.
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From these studies, inferences on the function of histone modifications were made; thattranscriptionalactivationor repression was associated with certain histone modifications and by region.
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