Abstract
Development of a multicellular organism is critically dependent on the proper temporal and spatial cues that regulate gene expression. Thus, in any one cell at a particular time, only a subset of the total genetic information is expressed. Manifestation of a gene’s function is a multistep process that starts at the chromosome of a cell in the form of transcription and ends at the production of a functional protein in the proper place and time. Thus, regulation can be applied at numerous points in this pathway. The early step of transcription initiation represents one of such points of control. Typically, the regulatory elements that are responsible for directing specific transcription initiation reside within the 5′ promoter region of the gene. The elucidation of the mechanisms how different promoter sequences generate tissue-specific gene expression will be invaluable to our understanding of how transcription may be modulated during development.
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Lam, E. (1994). Analysis of Tissue-Specific Elements in the CaMV 35S Promoter. In: Nover, L. (eds) Plant Promoters and Transcription Factors. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48037-2_8
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