Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > Information Science > Information Sources > Information Services > Documentation > Molecular Sequence Data > Base Sequence > Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid > Promoter Regions, Genetic
Genetic Phenomena > Genetic Structures > Base Sequence > Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid > Promoter Regions, Genetic
... > Chemical Phenomena > Biochemical Phenomena > Molecular Structure > Base Sequence > Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid > Promoter Regions, Genetic
... > Genetic Phenomena > Genetic Structures > Genome > Genome Components > Genes > Gene Components > Regulatory Elements, Transcriptional > Promoter Regions, Genetic

Preferred term

Promoter Regions, Genetic  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Promoter Region
  • Promoter Regions
  • Promotor Region
  • Promotor Regions
  • Region, Promoter
  • Region, Promotor
  • Regions, Promoter
  • Regions, Promotor

Scope note

  • DNA sequences which are recognized (directly or indirectly) and bound by a DNA-dependent RNA polymerase during the initiation of transcription. Highly conserved sequences within the promoter include the Pribnow box in bacteria and the TATA BOX in eukaryotes.

History note

  • 2009 (1985); for PROMOTER, GENETIC use OPERON 1980-1984; for rRNA PROMOTER use rRNA OPERON 1990-1998

In other languages

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011401

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 4/17/84, last modified 7/8/08