Category:SO:0000165 ! enhancer

id: SO:0000165
name: enhancer
def: "A cis-acting sequence that increases the utilization of (some) eukaryotic promoters, and can function in either orientation and in any location (upstream or downstream) relative to the promoter." [1]
comment: An enhancer may participate in an enhanceosome GO:0034206. A protein-DNA complex formed by the association of a distinct set of general and specific transcription factors with a region of enhancer DNA. The cooperative assembly of an enhanceosome confers specificity of transcriptional regulation. This comment is a place holder should we start to make cross products with GO.
subset: SOFA
xref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer_(genetics) "wiki"
is_a: SO:0000727 ! CRM

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Date Created	Date Last Edited	Date Obsoleted	Date Last Checked
2004-06-15	2010-03-26	0000-00-00	2011-10-11
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