Redundancy and the evolution of cis-regulatory element multiplicity.

The promoter regions of many genes contain multiple binding sites for the same transcription factor (TF). One possibility is that this multiplicity evolved through transitional forms showing redundant cis-regulation. To evaluate this hypothesis, we must disentangle the relative contributions of diff...

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Main Authors: Tiago Paixão, Ricardo B R Azevedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2900288?pdf=render