State three characteristics of enhancer elements for RNA polymerase II transcribed genes.
Enhancers are DNA regulatory sequences controlling temporal and tissue specific gene expression. It is a short region of dna that can be bound by activators to increase the transcription of a paricular gene. Enhancers act through a variety of transcription factors that ensure their correct match with target promoters and consequent gene activation.
In short, an enhancer functions to enhance the transcription. For that, it does not need to be near the gene of interest.
alterations in enhancers lead to misregulation of gene exprression
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