"Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science
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Blog Post
... the Addgene blog
Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping
Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region...has culminated in a collection of AAV enhancer plasmids with high specificity and brightness, now available...non-coding sequences of DNA that regulate gene expression by interacting with proteins such as transcription...sequence, then interact with mediator complexes and the RNA polymerase at the promoter region of a gene to initiate...enhancers are functional in every cell. Differential expression of transcription factors, which recognize and...mechanism that allows enhancers to regulate gene expression in a cell type-specific manner also makes them...tools for targeting those specific cell types to express exogenous genes — a feature the AIBS has capitalized...