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- Title
Transcriptional enhancers and their communication with gene promoters.
- Authors
Ray-Jones, Helen; Spivakov, Mikhail
- Abstract
Transcriptional enhancers play a key role in the initiation and maintenance of gene expression programmes, particularly in metazoa. How these elements control their target genes in the right place and time is one of the most pertinent questions in functional genomics, with wide implications for most areas of biology. Here, we synthesise classic and recent evidence on the regulatory logic of enhancers, including the principles of enhancer organisation, factors that facilitate and delimit enhancer–promoter communication, and the joint effects of multiple enhancers. We show how modern approaches building on classic insights have begun to unravel the complexity of enhancer–promoter relationships, paving the way towards a quantitative understanding of gene control.
- Subjects
GENE enhancers; GENE expression; FUNCTIONAL genomics; GENETIC regulation; BIOLOGY
- Publication
Cellular & Molecular Life Sciences, 2021, Vol 78, Issue 19/20, p6453
- ISSN
1420-682X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00018-021-03903-w