Label:
Transcription factors binding to DNA, 3D animation with no audio
Description:
DNAi Location:
Genome>Genome Mining>gene features>3D Animation Promoting transcription
Transcription begins with a bundle of factors assembling at the promoter sequence on the DNA (in red). Here, two transcription factors are already bound to the promoter. Other proteins arrive, carrying the enzyme RNA polymerase (in blue). To initiate transcription, these assembled proteins require contact with activator proteins that bind to specific sequences of DNA known as enhancer regions. Once the contact is made, the RNA polymerase races along the DNA to transcribe the gene.
Biological elements:
transcription factors, DNA, promoter, RNA polymerase, enhancer
Concepts precesses:
transcription
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