The authors designed an electromobility shift assay (EMSA) to examine how the missense substitution affected PAX7 «s ability to bind
a target regulatory sequence.
Not exact matches
Although each type of TF preferentially binds certain
regulatory DNA
sequences, evidence shows that this binding specificity is limited, and that TFs bind other noncognate
targets, too.
Molecular studies of Hox - regulated
target genes suggest that these changes occur through accumulation of mutations in
regulatory DNA
sequences.
But rather than changes in doublesex itself, these studies revealed changes in downstream
targets of dsx, via changes to specific DNA
sequences to which DSX protein binds in the cis -
regulatory regions of the bric - a-brac and desatF genes and affecting sex differences in abdominal pigmentation and pheromone production.
At present we are engineering
regulatory sequences to direct gene expression selectively to
target cells and tissues in the CanEuCre / Pleiades Promoter Project.