regulatory gene

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regulatory gene - a gene that produces a repressor substance that inhibits an operator gene

cistron, gene, factor - (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"

operon - a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene

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gène de régulation

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For example, both the ctxA gene and the toxR gene (the regulatory gene that controls expression of cholera toxin) are commonly found in the O1 and O139 epidemic strains of V.

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The main regulatory gene in development of parathyroid gland is GCMB.

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The team also noted that these alterations of the body's blood-making system appear to be linked to over-expression of a transcription factor called Gfi1 -- a regulatory gene that tells other genes what to do.

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Regulatory gene relationships are mathematically modeled and fitted to gene expression data and the optimal relationship is identified using the goodness of fit measure.

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But their juxtaposition would produce a critical breakthrough for our understanding of life'-namely, the concept of an 'operon,' a cluster of genes whose expression is regulated by an adjacent regulatory gene.

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This study was conducted to evaluate the role of GA on the rice performance under saline conditions and to investigate its effects on regulatory gene expression by GA-mediated seed priming.

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(107-109) Although the ascidian genome lacks an ortholog of Wnt1, the ascidian brain is regionalized by the regulatory gene circuit controlled by Fgf8/ 17/18 expressed at the late gastrula stage, (24) as we described above (Fig.

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(15) The second proposed mechanism involves the autoimmune regulatory gene (AIRE) located on chromosome 21.

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In these instances, the ability to determine regulatory gene networks benefited from several practical features, such as the spatiotemporal reproducibility of the process being analyzed, accessibility to observation and manipulation, and reliability of harvesting sufficient genetic material.

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While section 110 may be a central regulatory gene, it is not the only regulatory gene in the LLC code.