A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Different mechanisms have been proposed to explain the specificity of enhancer-promoter interactions, including promoter competition and insulator DNA elements. In the 9 July Proceedings of the ...

Kobe University bioengineers describe three design principles for efficient and reliably controllable yeast promoters, the genetic switches that regulate the artificially introduced genes necessary ...

A research group at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research says it has put to rest the notion that a gene promoter is only a promoter. They report, in the current issue of eLife Sciences, that ...

Yeast is a single cell eukaryotic organism, that incites in this Irish scientist an intense memory of the smell of brewing Guinness, wafting down the River Liffey on a drizzly Dublin day as I sit at ...

This study is led by Dr. Wen-Bing Yin (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Natural products (NPs) are low-molecular-weight compounds derived from secondary metabolic pathways, ...