Herr, W. (February 1993) The Sv40 Enhancer - Transcriptional Regulation through a Hierarchy of Combinatorial Interactions. Seminars in Virology, 4 (1). pp. 3-13. ISSN 1044-5773
Abstract
The simian DNA tumor virus SV40 regulates synthesis of early and late viral transcripts from two divergent and overlapping promoters. The SV40 early promoter exhibits all the hallmarks of eukaryotic promoters, containing elements that function when positioned near the start site of transcription and other positionally flexible elements that constitute a transcriptional enhancer. The architecture of the SV40 enhancer has been elucidated by four complementary approaches: (1) saturation mutagenesis in vitro; (2) viral genetic selection in vivo; (3) synthetic multimerization of its component parts; and (4) detailed protein binding studies. The SV40 enhancer represents a cluster of cell-specific regulatory elements that cooperate with one another in a functional hierarchy. The basic units of enhancer structure, enhansons, are the building blocks and represent protein binding sites. The functional units are proto-enhancers, which consist of one or more enhansons. Proto-enhancers serve as regulatory modules that can cooperate with one another or duplicates of themselves in flexible arrangements to create a potent enhancer.
| Item Type: | Paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | SV40 PROTO-ENHANCER ENHANSON ENHANCER TRANSCRIPTION UBIQUITOUS NUCLEAR PROTEINS SIMIAN VIRUS-40 ENHANCER RNA POLYMERASE-II GENE-EXPRESSION EARLY PROMOTER ELEMENTS SEQUENCES BINDING ACTIVATION MOTIFS |
| Subjects: | bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > transcription organism description > virus > SV40 organism description > virus |
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| Communities: | CSHL labs > Herr lab |
| Depositing User: | Matt Covey |
| Date: | February 1993 |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2016 14:50 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Apr 2016 14:50 |
| URI: | https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/32600 |
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