Although these non-coding regions do not encode proteins, they contain regulatory elements such as enhancer sequences, which play crucial roles in controlling gene expression. Enhancers can ...

Some of these “enhancers” regulatory sequences function similarly to the dimmer switches that control the lighting in the living room. In fact, when and where a specific gene is needed ...

which allows for greater flexibility in the control of gene expression. As previously mentioned, enhancer sequences are DNA sequences that are bound by an activator protein, and they can be ...

An international collaboration of researchers led by Masahito Yoshihara at Chiba University (Japan) has identified novel transcriptional enhancers that regulate gene expression in neuronal development ...

In a 2010 Nature paper, researchers in the lab of neurobiologist Michael Greenberg at Harvard Medical School reported that enhancers can produce RNA. Working with cultured mouse neurons, the ...

Researchers used powerful technology to analyse thousands of individual cells at once, considering which genes are active.

Enhancer Biology lab studies gene regulation and genome architecture controlled by transcription factors using genome-wide functional genomics methods. Our aim is to understand enhancer malfunction ...

This shows that the region contains several non-modular enhancers (blue = strong gene expression; red = weak gene expression). The image may be used in combination with the press release.

New study by Chiba University, Japan in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, uncovers novel enhancer-promoter interactions that regulate gene expression during neuronal ...