Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!
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Blog Post
Published
April 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
... a big issue for cells, but it may confound research results or even kill your cells if your gene of interest...necessary to replicate plasmids and make sure the cells maintains it. Here, we'll cover the promoter, which... (response elements). Promoters are about 100 to 1000 base pairs long and found upstream of their target... Because transcription machinery differs between cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly ...variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic cells and typically only in the same or closely related... were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian, yeast, plants, etc) require unique...complex, having fewer parts than those in eukaryotic cells. Some promoters are constitutively active and on...